Cognitive processes in social anxiety: The effects of self-focus, rumination and anticipatory processing

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 243-257

  Mellings, Tanna M B ^a   Alden, Lynn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive; Memory; Rumination; Self focus; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECALL; RUMINATION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; COGNITION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SELF PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033991801     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00040-6     Document Type: Article

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