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Showing 1 to 20 of 224 for “"social anxiety"”.
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Anticipatory processing in social anxiety
Socially anxious individuals often report considerable anticipatory anxiety. A recent cognitive model of social phobia (Clark & Wells, 1995) has suggested that while anticipating a social situation, socially anxious people engage in four biased cognitive processes. First, they recall and dwell on …
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Exploring Impulsivity, Hostility, and Poor Decision-Making in Social Anxiety: An Externalizing Social Anxiety Subtype?
Individuals with social anxiety disorder have traditionally been conceptualized as shy, withdrawn, and inhibited. This is certainly true for many people suffering from this disorder; however, a nascent body of research has identified one or more subgroups of socially anxious individuals who exhibit …
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Post-event processing in social anxiety
… detailed and negatively-biased review of a prior social event, in the maintenance of social anxiety. The six studies presented had three major goals: (i) to outline the cognitive contents of PEP (Study 1), (ii) to explicate the cognitive causes of PEP (Studies 1-3), and (iii) to investigate the …
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Neurobiological aspects of social anxiety disorder
… investigates the functional neuroanatomy of SAD [Social Anxiety Disorder] using an activation likelihood-estimate meta-analysis (ALE meta-analysis), and explores the structural basis of SAD using a cortical thickness and subcortical gray matter volume analysis.
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A Social Identity Approach to Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and disabling condition, with prevalence rates increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic. SAD is defined as a fear of negative evaluation, causing psychological distress and impairment as well as significant economic costs. There are a number of evidence-based …
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A Social Identity Approach to Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and disabling condition, with prevalence rates increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic. SAD is defined as a fear of negative evaluation, causing psychological distress and impairment as well as significant economic costs. There are a number of evidence-based …
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The role of shame, schemas, cognitions, paranoia and memories in social anxiety following psychosis: a comparison with typical social anxiety
… This study aimed to investigate the nature of social anxiety in psychosis through comparison with individuals with social anxiety without psychosis. Extending the work of Lockett (2011), it explored factors associated with both cognitive models of social anxiety (Clark & Wells, 1995; Rapee & …
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Social anxiety and paranoia: A mixed-methods investigation
Social anxiety is highly prevalent and highly debilitating. It is detrimental to educational and occupational progression as well as quality of life for up to 12% of the population. Current research, treatment, and diagnostic criteria maintain that the cause of anxiety in social situations is …
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Self-esteem and social anxiety following brain injury
… models discussing psychological and psychosocial wellbeing following brain injury have increasingly suggested the importance of rehabilitation interventions which take into account the psychological resources of the individual, as opposed to focusing solely on cognitive or physical …
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The brain age gap in social anxiety disorder
… brain ageing in neuropsychiatric diseases. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a disabling mental illness, which has been associated with both structural brain deficits and advanced biological ageing. However, brain age research has yet to be conducted in adults diagnosed with SAD. The present …
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Automatic and controlled processing of faces in social anxiety
… in undergraduate participants with high and low Social Anxiety (SA). Affective faces (happy, neutral, angry) were subliminally presented to participants in two phases. During the first phase, Prepulse Inhibition of Startle (PPI) was used as an index of attention allocation and attention …
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social anxiety and social reasoning in peer-rejected children
… & Bukowski, 1997). The current study examined social reasoning ability, social context, social anxiety, social goals, and feelings of self-efficacy in social situations with nonaggressive peer rejected males and females in comparison to males and females of average peer status. The results of …
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Common and Distinct Neural Mechanisms of Fear Acquisition and Reversal in comorbid Autism with Social Anxiety and Social Anxiety Disorder uncomplicated by Autism
Social Anxiety (SAD) increases in prevalence as children enter adolescence. Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are diagnosed with comorbid SAD at higher rates than these individuals are diagnosed with other clinical disorders, including depression and other anxiety disorders. However, …
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Sleep and exposure therapy in adults with social anxiety disorder
Exposure therapy is an effective treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), yet many patients do not respond to treatment, experience partial remission, or relapse following initial therapy success. Deficits in therapeutic learning may explain why some individuals derive little or no benefit from …
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The efficacy of bibliotherapy for social anxiety and depressive symptomology
… were undergraduates experiencing comorbid social anxiety and depressive symptoms. It is hypothesized that those in the treatment condition (n=5) would experience a significant reduction in social anxiety and depressive symptoms over the course of the nine week treatment. In addition, it is …
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Investigating the Prevalence of Social Anxiety in LGB College Students
… in the literature on LGB college students and social anxiety. The dearth of information around the prevalence and impact of social anxiety on the college population and the LGB population is important because social anxiety is known to be prevalent and chronic, affecting all areas of an …
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