Abstract
Biased cognitions and social anxiety: building a global framework for integrating cognitive, behavioral, and neural processes.
Highlights
Social anxiety is a common emotional experience that occurs in response to the perceived threat of evaluation from others before, during, or after social situations
Cognitive theorists have argued that negatively biased information-processing may contribute to the maintenance of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) (e.g., Clark and Wells, 1995; Rapee and Heimberg, 1997; Hirsch and Clark, 2004; Morrison and Heimberg, 2013)
Since the development of maintenance models for SAD (e.g., Clark and Wells, 1995), cumulative evidence indicates that SAD individuals do exhibit such biased cognitions, and further research has begun to uncover the behavioral, cognitive, and neural correlates of these biases (e.g., Rossignol et al, 2012; Hattingh et al, 2013)
Summary
Social anxiety is a common emotional experience that occurs in response to the perceived threat of evaluation from others before, during, or after social situations. Cognitive theorists have argued that negatively biased information-processing may contribute to the maintenance of SAD (e.g., Clark and Wells, 1995; Rapee and Heimberg, 1997; Hirsch and Clark, 2004; Morrison and Heimberg, 2013). Such biases would lead individuals with SAD to evaluate social situations as more threatening than they are, and in turn, contribute to the maintenance of the disorder (e.g., Clark and Wells, 1995; Rapee and Heimberg, 1997).
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