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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Objective: Social cognition research in alcohol use disorder (AUD) has accumulated over
the past decades and has implications for understanding the interpersonal problems …

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 (ie the selective negative interpretation of ambiguous stimuli) may
contribute to the development and maintenance of health anxiety. However, the strength of …

Abstract Interpretation bias and inflexibility have been implicated in a wide range of
psychopathologies, including affective disorders and disorders involving persecutory …

Objective: The Cancer Threat Interpretation model proposes that clinically significant fear of
cancer recurrence/progression (FCR/P) can occur when people misinterpret ambiguous …

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 …