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Social Anxiety and Social Anxiety Disorder
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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 recently updated model from our group and details recent research stemming from the (a) information processing perspective, including attention bias, interpretation bias, implicit associations, imagery and visual memories, and (b) emotion regulation perspective, including positive emotionality and anger. In addition, we review recent studies exploring the roles of self-focused attention, safety behaviors, and post-event processing in the maintenance of social anxiety. Within each area, we detail the ways in which these topics have implications for the treatment of social anxiety and for future research. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of how several of the areas reviewed contribute to our model of social anxiety disorder.
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“SA symptoms are particularly contextually bound, and thus, it is of utmost relevance to consider the sensitivity of the context [2].”
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“SAD is a heterogeneous clinical condition that usually entails high levels of dysfunction in the lives of people who experience it. This heterogeneous nature of SAD is marked by the dynamic deployment of cognitions, emotions, and behaviors in the interaction with others and in different contexts [2].”
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- Authors
- Morrison, A. S., & Heimberg, R. G.
- Affiliations
- Temple University (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2013-03-28
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 249-274
- ISSN
- 1548-5943 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-5951
- OpenAlex
- W2147509803
- Cited by
- 480
- References
- 127
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- FWCI
- 3.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- social anxiety, social anxiety disorder, cognitive-behavioral model, attentional bias, interpretation bias, implicit associations, imagery, visual memory, positive affectivity, anger, self-focus, safety behavior, post-event processing, social anxiety treatment
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Emotions, Humans, Models, Psychological, Phobic Disorders, Self Concept
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