Social interaction anxiety and the discounting of positive interpersonal events

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 597-609

  Vassilopoulos, Stephanos P ^a   Banerjee, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; negative interpretation; positive affect; social anxiety disorder; social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REINFORCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957267973     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465810000433     Document Type: Article

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