Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder posit that maladaptive thought processes play
an etiological role in symptoms. The current study tested whether socially anxious …

Cognitive theories of social anxiety disorder suggest that biased attention plays a key role in
maintaining symptoms. These biases include self-focus and attention to socially threatening …

In social anxiety disorder (SAD), anxiety reactions are triggered by attentional bias to social
threats that automatically appear in social situations. The present study aimed to investigate …

Volitional attentional control has been found to rely on prefrontal neuronal circuits.
According to the attentional control theory of anxiety, impairment in the volitional control of …

People with social anxiety disorder (SAD) exhibit an attentional bias for threat (AB).
Nevertheless, the focus on AB for emotional stimuli has led to neglect the exploration of …

Self-focused attention is thought to be a key feature of social anxiety disorder. Yet few
studies have used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine whether socially anxious …

Background and objectives Social anxiety is characterized by biased attentional processing
of social information. However, heterogeneity of extant findings suggests that it may be …

Research on cognitive theories of social anxiety disorder (SAD) has identified individual
processes that influence this condition (eg, cognitive biases, repetitive negative thinking) …

Despite the established relationship between social anxiety and attentional bias towards
threat, a growing base of evidence suggests that social anxiety is additionally maintained by …

Socially anxious individuals tend to shift their attention away from external socially
threatening cues and instead become highly self-focused. Such heightened self-focused …