Social-evaluative threat and cognitive performance in socially anxious and nonanxious individuals

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 283-294

  Wenzel, Amy ^a,c   Holt, Craig S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Information processing; Social anxiety; Social evaluative threat; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037290609     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00044-2     Document Type: Article

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