Social interaction anxiety, social phobia, and cognitive control: controlled reactions to facial affect during an emotional face flanker task

Shyness, Social Anxiety, and Social Phobia

Validation of the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale and the Social Phobia Scale Across the Anxiety Disorders

The psychometric adequacy of the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS; R. P. Mattick & J. C. Clark, 1989), a measure of social interaction anxiety, and the Social Phobia Scale (SPS; R. E Mattick & J. C. Clarke, 1989), a measure of anxiety while being observed by others, was evaluated in anxious patients and normal controls. Social phobia patients scored higher on both scales and were more lik...

Neural bases of social anxiety disorder: emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation during social and physical threat.

CONTEXT Social anxiety disorder is thought to involve emotional hyperreactivity, cognitive distortions, and ineffective emotion regulation. While the neural bases of emotional reactivity to social stimuli have been described, the neural bases of emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation during social and physical threat, and their relationship to social anxiety symptom severity, have yet to...

A cognitive-behavioral model of anxiety in social phobia.

The current paper presents a model of the experience of anxiety in social/evaluative situations in people with social phobia. The model describes the manner in which people with social phobia perceive and process information related to potential evaluation and the way in which these processes differ between people high and low in social anxiety. It is argued that distortions and biases in the p...

Cognitive Control: Social Evolution and Emotional Regulation

This commentary argues that theories of cognitive control risk being incomplete unless they incorporate social/emotional factors. Social factors very likely played a critical role in the evolution of human cognitive control abilities, and emotional states are the primary regulatory mechanisms of cognitive control.