Social inference and social anxiety: evidence of a fear-congruent self-referential learning bias.

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Fears of negative evaluation characterise social anxiety, and preferential processing of fear-relevant information is implicated in maintaining symptoms. Little is known, however, about the relationship between social anxiety and the process of inferring negative evaluation. The ability to use social information to learn what others think about one, referred to here as self-referential learning, is fundamental for effective social interaction. The aim of this resea...

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Authors: Button, K; Browning, M; Munafò, MR; Lewis, G

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1082-1087
• Publication date: 2012-12-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.05.004
• EISSN: 1873-7943
• ISSN: 0005-7916
• Language: English
• Keywords: Interpersonal Relations; Adolescent; Fear; Self Concept; Attention; Anxiety; Phobic Disorders; Female; Middle Aged; Social Perception; Humans; Adult; Probability Learning