Cognitive models suggest that social anxiety is in part caused and maintained by cognitive
biases. In this chapter, we evaluate empirical evidence for various biases in individuals with …

Psychopathologists have been greatly influenced by information-processing models of
emotional disorders that suggest preferential processing of threat-relevant information …

Social anxiety is associated with judgmental biases, wherein individuals overestimate the
probability that negative social events will occur and the costs associated with these events …

Publisher Summary Information processing biases are thought to influence attending to,
remembering, and interpreting threat-relevant information leading to the maintenance of …

Judgmental biases for threat-relevant stimuli are thought to be important mechanisms
underlying the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Previous research has shown …

Social phobia involves a persistent fear of negative evaluation by others and is associated
with significant functional impairment. This contribution presents an introduction to the …

Research on social anxiety and social anxiety disorder has proliferated over the years since
the explication of the disorder through cognitive-behavioral models. This review highlights a …

Cognitive models of social anxiety predict that interpretation bias mediates the relationship
between level of social anxiety and state anxiety in response to social-evaluative threat. We …

This paper discusses factors that might affect vulnerability to social anxiety and clinically
significant social phobia. The paper begins by describing the “cognitive signature” of socially …

Abstract Interpretation bias, the tendency to interpret ambiguous situations in a positive or
negative fashion, has been implicated in the maintenance of social anxiety. To examine this …