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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"social threat"”.
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The Effect of Alcohol on Attention to Social Threat: A Test of the Avoidance-Coping Cognitive Model
… model (Bacon & Ham, 2010) proposed that Socially anxious individuals may be particularly vulnerable to the anxiolytic effects of alcohol through reductions in attention biases to Social threat. Elements of this model and were tested in the present study, in which undergraduate volunteers …
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Internal and External Attentional Biases in Social Anxiety: The Effect of Effortful Control
… processes have been proposed to play a role in social anxiety: self-focused attention and threat perception bias. Mansell, Clark, and Ehlers (2003) devised a novel dot-probe paradigm to simultaneously measure on-line attention to internal and external events among socially anxious adults. Their …
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The role of appraisal in the development of posttraumatic stress disorder and social anxiety disorder
… processes after experiencing life and/or social threat among women with a trauma history from the SAGA cohort (n = 66). We compared a group of women who reported life threat, social threat or both types of threat in relation to their worst trauma, and had clinically significant PTSD …
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Investigating and targeting potential mechanisms of outcome in exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder
Though exposure-based treatments for social anxiety disorder (SAD) are efficacious, not everyone benefits, and we still do not fully understand how and under what conditions this treatment works. Fruitful approaches to better understanding and improving exposure therapy 1) identify predictors of …
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Biased Attentional Processing for Negative Emotion and Youth Internalizing Psychopathology: The Role of Attentional Control Deficits
… inhibition and shifting, in the context of social threat (i.e., anger) in a community sample of youth and young adults (ages 13-22; N = 80). Findings show that difficulty inhibiting attention for social threat is associated with symptoms of general distress, which are shared across …
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Loneliness and Hypervigilance to Social Threats in Adults
… people are hypervigilant (i.e. on high alert) to social threats in the social environment. This leads to attention, memory, and confirmatory biases, which undermine the opportunity to develop positive social relationships. This thesis outlines a series of six studies that systematically examine …
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Loneliness and Health: Physiological and Cognitive Mechanisms in Adulthood and Childhood
… linked to poor health through hypervigilance to social threat (HSTH), resulting in increased activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The first two studies address gaps in the adult literature for loneliness and health and examine HSTH and the HPA axis stress response in real …
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Effects of a tactile safeness intervention on experiences of shame and compassion
… are able to mitigate experiences of social threat and facilitate compassionate and altruistic responding. Building off of those findings, this study examines the effects of touching an inanimate object - a teddy bear- upon experiences of shame, compassion, and different emotions after …
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Childhood Maltreatment is Associated with Adult Depression: Is Inflammation to Blame?
… contribute to the development of depression. The social signal transduction theory of depression hypothesizes that adversity and social threat upregulate pro-inflammatory biomarkers leading to depression. The current study examined whether pro-inflammatory biomarkers (interleukin-6, interleukin-8, …
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Socially oriented negative self-referent cognition : the development and validation of a measure
Social phobia, a debilitating disorder among children and adolescents, is thought to be made up of cognitive, behavioral, and physiological components. However, in children, the cognitive component of this disorder has been largely neglected by researchers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was …
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Imagery and the self in social phobia
… of negative self-images in the maintenance of social phobia. Although evidence suggests that in social phobia these images influence some cognitive, affective and behavioural responses in social situations, it is unclear how they exert their effect. The literature review examines the …
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The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis and the Medicalization of Late Ottoman Society, 1800–1922
… examines how tuberculosis (TB) became a “social disease” (<em>maraz-ı ictimâʻî</em> ) in the late Ottoman Empire. Focusing on the period from the early 19th century to the aftermath of World War I, it traces how Ottoman doctors, reformers, and public health advocates conceptualized and …
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Physical and Social Threats Fortify Moral Judgements
… factors, such as contamination and disease threats. Indeed, the role of disgust and disease threats on amplifying judgements of moral wrongdoing has been widely investigated. Likewise, there may be other forms of threat that similarly fortify condemnation across multiple domains of morality. …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… forms of behavior. Keen observers of their social environment, novelists Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, and Amelia Opie were not content with stick-figure heroes and villains. Their richly drawn male characters are deeply embedded in late-Georgian controversies over men’s status, …
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An emerging role for tcf7l2 at the nexus between metabolic regulation and social behavior
Most animals utilize social behaviors that are preprogrammed at birth, for example, to avoid predators or defend territory. But these programs are also certainly modified by emotional learning and subsequent events. Indeed, failure to modify and master these instinctive responses underlie many …