Corrigendum
Developmental pathways to social anxiety and irritability:
The role of the ERN – CORRIGENDUM
Courtney A. Filippi, Anni R. Subar, Jessica F. Sachs, Katharina Kircanski, George Buzzell, David Pagliaccio, Rany Abend,
Nathan A. Fox, Ellen Leibenluft and Daniel S. Pine
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579419001329. Published online by Cambridge University Press, 28 October 2019
Keywords: behavioral inhibition, developmental pathways, ERN, irritability, psychopathology, corrigendum
The article “Developmental pathways to social anxiety and irrita-
bility: The role of ERN” (Filippi et al., 2020) included an error.
The authors identified an error in one of the scripts used to pro-
cess the event-related potential (ERP) data in the original manu-
script (Buzzell et al., 2017). A typo in one of the MATLAB scripts
caused one of the seven electrodes going into the error-related
negativity (ERN) ERP cluster to be from an incorrect scalp loca-
tion (computing the cluster relies on indexing into a matrix and
one of the indices were off by a value of 1). This mistake ulti-
mately impacts the ERN variable described in the original article
(Filippi et al., 2020). Given that only one of the 7 electrodes in the
cluster was wrong, after correcting this error, the original and cor-
rected ERN variables—for the sample used in this paper—corre-
late highly (n = 127, r = .99, p < .001). Similarly, after re-running
all analyses in the main text and supplement using the corrected
variable, we find that all primary results involving the ERN (inter-
actions, follow-up correlations, and partial correlation tests)
remain unchanged in terms of significance. It is worth noting
that while one of the control analyses does change from p < .05
to p = .06, the associated follow-up partial correlation tests remain
unchanged in terms of significance. Thus, there are no changes in
the interpretation or conclusions drawn from the manuscript as a
result of correcting the error with the ERN variable. Please note
that this is an author-initiated correction, in line with the princi-
ples of open science and to ensure the validity of any future meta-
analytic work based on this manuscript. Changes to the originally
published article and supplement are listed below in red font.
1. Page 901, Table 2 should appear as follows:
2. Page 901, “Focal analysis strategy” section, paragraph 1, lines
11–14 should read:
“High ERN reflects scores less than -3.28 (n = 42); moderate ERN
reflect scores that are between -3.28 and -.98 (n = 43); and low
ERN reflects scores that are greater than -.98 (n = 42)”
3. Page 901, “Behavioral inhibition to social anxiety” section,
paragraph 1, lines 1-4 should read:
“Results indicate distinct correlations between ERN and social
anxiety in children with and without BI, β = -.083, ΔR
2
= .027,
F(1,122) = 4.037, p < .047”
4. Page 902, Figure 2 should appear as follows:
5. Page 902, “Behavioral inhibition to social anxiety” section,
paragraph 2, lines 6–14 should read:
“Results indicated that the association between BI and social anx-
iety was significant for the high-ERN, r(41) = .563, p < .001, and
the moderate-ERN groups, t(41) = .521, p < .001, but not the
low-ERN group (p > .786). This suggests that the association
between BI and social anxiety found in the two higher ERN groups
fails to manifest among individuals who exhibit a low ERN. These
correlations held when controlling for childhood irritability,
high-ERN: r(36) = .547, p < .001; moderate-ERN: r(39)=.533,
p < .001; low-ERN: p < .565).”
6. Page 902, “Childhood irritability to irritability at age 12”
section, paragraph 1, lines 1-4 should read:
The association between childhood irritability and age-12 irritabil-
ity differed as a function of ERN magnitude, β =.590, ΔR
2
= .078,
F(1,59) = 5.806, p < .019”
Table 2. Correlations among focal variables of interest
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
(1) Childhood BI – – – – –
(2) High stable irritability
childhood
.070 – – – –
(3) ERN .024 .049 – – –
(4) 12-year Social Anxiety .341** -.031 .024 – –
(5) 12-year Irritability (ARI) -.035 .350** -.142 .190 –
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and irritability: The role of the ERN – CORRIGENDUM. Development and
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