Elizabeth L. Addington is completing her doctoral training in the Health Psychology Ph. D.
Program, Clinical Concentration, at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and at VA …

Increasingly, young adults' social interactions are taking place via computer-mediated
communication (CMC). Recent research suggests that socially anxious youth, in particular …

Models of anxiety disorders posit that information processing biases towards threat may
result from an imbalance between top-down attentional control processes and bottom-up …

Abstract Purpose of Review Cognitive impairments and biases, which are prevalent in
patients with mood and anxiety disorders, can affect quality of life and functioning …

Background Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has been proposed as an important
transdiagnostic variable within various anxiety-related disorders. Research has suggested …

The fear of other persons' laughter (gelotophobia) occurs in the context of several psychiatric
conditions, particularly in the schizophrenia spectrum and social phobia. It entails severe …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with threat-related attention and interpretation
biases. Recent research suggests that attention control abilities moderate these …

The use of metabolic cages is established housing protocol in small-animal, gastrointestinal
research. Physiological data, as primarily observed through secretions of the hypothalamic …

Although cognitive models of emotion propose that elevated trait anxiety may be associated
with a memory bias for threatening information, evidence for such an anxiety-linked memory …

Socially anxious adults display an interpretation bias toward anticipating threat such as a
high probability of audience criticism even in nonthreatening social situations. They may …