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Modulation of Trust in Borderline Personality Disorder by Script-Based Imaginal Exposure to Betrayal.

Interpersonal and trust-related difficulties are central features of borderline personality disorder (BPD). In this study, we applied script-driven betrayal imagery to evoke mistrustful behavior in a social reinforcement learning task. In 21 BPD and 20 healthy control (HC) participants, we compared...

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Published in:Journal of Personality Disorders Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 508 - 525
Main Authors: Shapiro-Thompson, Rosa, Shah, Tanya V., Yi, Caroline, Jackson, Nasir, Trujillo Diaz, Daniel, Fineberg, Sarah K.
Format: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Guilford Publications Inc. Oct2023
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          Shapiro-Thompson, Rosa
          Shah, Tanya V.
          Yi, Caroline
          Jackson, Nasir
          Trujillo Diaz, Daniel
          Fineberg, Sarah K.
        affil: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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          Borderline Personality Disorder Therapy
          Trust
          Imagination
          Narratives
          Betrayal
          Social Behavior
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Reinforcement (Psychology)
          Desensitization, Psychologic
          Human
          Learning
          Affect
          Cues
          Deception
          Interpersonal Relations
          Comparative Studies
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          Psychotherapy
      ab: Interpersonal and trust-related difficulties are central features of borderline personality disorder (BPD). In this study, we applied script-driven betrayal imagery to evoke mistrustful behavior in a social reinforcement learning task. In 21 BPD and 20 healthy control (HC) participants, we compared this approach to the standard confederate paradigm used in research studies. The script-driven imagery evoked a transient increase in negative affect and also decreased trusting behavior to a similar degree in both groups. Across conditions, we also replicated previously reported between-group differences in negative affect (increased in BPD) and task behavior (more sensitive to social cues in BPD). These results support the validity of script-driven imagery as an alternative social task stimulus. This script-driven imagery approach is appealing for clinical research studies on reinforcement learning because it eliminates deception, scales easily, and evokes disorder-specific states of social difficulty.
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