This article is a correction to:
You Were Better Than Expected–An Experimental Study to Examine Expectation Change in a Non-clinical Sample
Rosa-Marie Groth
Winfried Rief- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
A corrigendum on
You were better than expected—An experimental study to examine expectation change in a non-clinical sample
by Groth, R. -M., and Rief, W. (2022). Front. Psychol. 13:862946. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.862946
In the published article, there was an error in Figure 1, part B. The information for “Block 2” was displayed as “Block 2: 80 trials, high difficulty: Expectation confirmation.” The correct information is “Block 2: 80 trials, low difficulty: Expectation violation.” The corrected Figure 1 and its caption appear below. The caption and figure legend remain unchanged.
FIGURE 1
Figure 1. The basic procedure of the two experiments. Experiment 1 (A): A cover story, a training block and a test block induced negative expectations regarding one's ability to succeed in an unknown test. After the first test block, we assed participants' expectations. The procedure continues with a second test block with either a high (group 1) or a low (group 2) difficulty to confirm (group 1) or disconfirm (group 2) the initial expectation. Afterward, we assessed participants' expectations for the second time followed by a post-experimental interview and debriefing. Experiment 2 (B): A cover story and additional immunization-inhibiting (group 1) or enhancing (group 2) instructions mark the beginning of the experiment. Afterward, we presented a training block as well as a test block induced negative expectations regarding one's ability to succeed in an unknown test. After the first test block, we assed participants' expectations. The procedure continues with a second test block low difficulty to disconfirm the initial expectation. Afterward, we assessed participants' expectations for the second time followed by a post-experimental interview and debriefing.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: expectation, expectation change, positive feedback, cognitive immunization, instruction, behavioral experiments
Citation: Groth R-M and Rief W (2022) Corrigendum: You were better than expected—An experimental study to examine expectation change in a non-clinical sample. Front. Psychol. 13:1053536. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1053536
Received: 25 September 2022; Accepted: 24 October 2022;
Published: 24 November 2022.
Edited by:
Maarten Speekenbrink, University College London, United KingdomReviewed by:
Alexander Strobel, Technical University Dresden, GermanyCopyright © 2022 Groth and Rief. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Rosa-Marie Groth, rosa-marie.groth@uni-marburg.de