Effects of mask-wearing on social anxiety: an exploratory review

SA Saint, DA Moscovitch - Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background A unique feature of the global coronavirus pandemic has been the widespread
adoption of mask-wearing as a public health measure to minimize the risk of contagion. Little …

Communicating and reading emotion with masked faces in the Covid era: A short review of the literature

C Ramdani, M Ogier, A Coutrot - Psychiatry research, 2022 - Elsevier
Face masks have proven to be key to slowing down the SARS-Cov2 virus spread in the
COVID-19 pandemic context. However, wearing face masks is not devoid of “side-effects”, at …

Examining the reciprocal link between social anxiety and social relationships spanning from childhood to adulthood: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

B Chen, X Sun, X Huang, L Yao - Developmental Psychology, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
It is theoretically plausible that social anxiety (SA) and social relationships (SR) can
influence each other. However, the available empirical evidence is inconsistent, leading to …

Social anxiety and suicidality in youth: a systematic review and meta-analysis

E Leigh, K Chiu, ED Ballard - Research on child and adolescent …, 2023 - Springer
Suicide is a leading cause of death among young people every year. Identifying risk factors
provides opportunities to intervene, and social anxiety may represent one such factor. This …

Tasks and investigated components in social cognition research among adults with alcohol use disorder: A critical scoping review.

A Pabst, M Gautier, P Maurage - Psychology of Addictive …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Social cognition research in alcohol use disorder (AUD) has accumulated over
the past decades and has implications for understanding the interpersonal problems …

The role of ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in attention and interpretation biases in individuals with general anxiety disorder (GAD): a tDCS study

V Nejati, S Khalaji, H Goodarzi, M Nitsche - Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and purpose of the study: Individuals with general anxiety disorder (GAD) have
deficits in emotional and cognitive processing, including cognitive bias, which plays a causal …

Interpretation bias in health anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis

X Du, M Witthöft, T Zhang, C Shi, Z Ren - Psychological medicine, 2023 - cambridge.org
Interpretation bias (ie the selective negative interpretation of ambiguous stimuli) may
contribute to the development and maintenance of health anxiety. However, the strength of …

Developing a novel assessment of interpretation flexibility: Reliability, validity and clinical implications

W Deng, J Everaert, M Creighton, MV Bronstein… - Personality and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Interpretation bias and inflexibility have been implicated in a wide range of
psychopathologies, including affective disorders and disorders involving persecutory …

Does interpretation bias moderate the relationship between pain and fear of cancer recurrence?

P Pradhan, L Sharpe, P Butow, D Coutts-Bain… - Health …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The Cancer Threat Interpretation model proposes that clinically significant fear of
cancer recurrence/progression (FCR/P) can occur when people misinterpret ambiguous …

No evidence that gaze anxiety predicts gaze avoidance behavior during face-to-face social interaction

D Tönsing, B Schiller, A Vehlen, I Spenthof, G Domes… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Eye contact is an indispensable social signal, yet for some individuals it is also a source of
discomfort they fear and avoid. However, it is still unknown whether gaze anxiety actually …