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Impaired positive inferential bias in social phobia
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People with social phobia report anticipatory and retrospective judgments about social situations that appear consistent with a negative interpretative bias. However, it is not at all clear that biased interpretative inferences are made "on-line;" that is, at the time that ambiguous information is first encountered. In a previous study, volunteers who were anxious about interviews were found to lack the positive on-line inferential bias that was characteristic of nonanxious controls but also failed to show a bias favoring threatening inferences (C. R. Hirsch & A. Mathews, 1997). This finding was confirmed in the present study, in which social phobic patients showed no evidence of making on-line emotional inferences, in contrast with socially nonanxious controls who were again clearly biased in favor of positive inferences. The authors concluded that nonanxious individuals are characterized by a benign on-line inferential bias, but that this is impaired in people with social phobia.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hirsch, C. R., & Mathews, A.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- ORCID
- Hirsch, Colette R.
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 2000-11
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 705-712
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- OpenAlex
- W2083308858
- Cited by
- 267
- References
- 8
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- FWCI
- 6.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Keywords
- social anxiety disorder, interpretation bias, emotion inference, anxiety
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Arousal, Attention, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Phobic Disorders, Self Concept, Social Perception
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