New Publication from Dr. Draheim on the Outcome Probability Task

In collaboration with her colleagues at Georgia State University, Dr. Amanda Draheim has recently published an article examining the psychometric properties of the computer task she developed for her dissertation: the Outcome Probability Task. This task may facilitate more ecologically valid and multimodal assessment of a key maintenance factor for social anxiety disorder, outcome probability bias, which involves overestimating the likelihood of being negatively judged. Under the supervision of Dr. Page Anderson, Madeline Rech, a current graduate student at Georgia State University, expanded on Dr. Draheim's work by exploring the factor structure of the Outcome Probability Task in a new sample of 283 participants for her master's thesis. Madeline taught herself an advanced statistical approach, confirmatory factor analysis, and discovered that outcome probability bias may be more complex that originally identified in the past using short self-report questionnaires to measure this construct. This may have applications for better assessment and more streamlined and tailored treatment of social anxiety disorder. 

Read Dr. Draheim's article: Examining Types of Social Outcome Probability Bias: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Outcome Probability Task