Background: Interpretation bias, which involves interpreting ambiguous social events
negatively and catastrophising even mildly negative social events, has been suggested as a …

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 …

People with emotional disorders, such as social anxiety disorder (SAD), generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD), and depression, demonstrate a consistent tendency, or bias, to generate …

The authors conducted a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial to examine the
efficacy of an attention training procedure in reducing symptoms of social anxiety in 44 …

Social cognition deficits are observed in a variety of psychiatric illnesses. However, data
concerning anxiety disorders are sparse and difficult to interpret. This meta-analysis aims at …

Cognitive bias modification (CBM) is an innovative approach to modifying cognitive biases
that confer vulnerability to anxiety. CBM interventions are designed to directly modify …

Previous research suggests that socially anxious individuals interpret ambiguous social
information in a more threatening manner compared to non-anxious individuals. Recently …

Interpretation bias, described as the tendency to interpret social situations in a negative or
threatening manner, has been widely linked to social anxiety in adult populations. This study …

Cognitive models of anxiety posit that negative beliefs influence socially anxious individuals'
interpretation of ambiguous social cues. However, paradigms used to assess interpretation …

Cognitive theories propose that the resolution of ambiguity is related to the maintenance of
social anxiety. A sentence completion task was used to examine how individuals high (n …