The effects of social evaluation and looming threat on self-attentional biases and social anxiety

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-352

  Haikal, Muhammad ^a   Hong, Ryan Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fear of negative evaluation; Looming cognitive style; Self attentional biases; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SPEECH; STUDENTS; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950370031     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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