Social anxiety and the effects of negative self-imagery on emotion, cognition, and post-event processing

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 654-664

  Makkar, Steve R ^a   Grisham, Jessica R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Post event processing; Social anxiety; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; POST EVENT PROCESSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF IMAGERY; SOCIAL ANXIETY; SPEECH; THINKING;

ANXIETY; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTROVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80052389015     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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