introduction: although the effectiveness of paroxetine and attention modification program has been studied separately in treating social anxiety disorder, there has been no research comparing them according to the literature. the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of paroxetine, attention modification program (amp) and combination of both on improving the social anxiety symptoms...

Being excluded and ignored has been shown to threaten fundamental human needs and cause pain. Such reflexive reactions to social exclusion have been conceptualized as direct and unmoderated (temporal need threat model, Williams, 2009). Here we propose an extension and argue that reflexive reactions depend on how social exclusion situations are construed. If being excluded is understood as a vio...

In this paper, we argue that most current social information ltering approaches may bene t from more seriously taking into account the peculiarities of human cognition and human social behavior since current approaches only consider de-contextualized ratings. Social ltering systems exploit ratings provided by users in order to compute recommendations for other users. Typically, these ratings ar...

When categorized into social groups, people view members of in-groups, but not members of out-groups, as being similar to themselves. In three experiments, social categorization moderated the spread of social projection in both minimal and value-tagged laboratory groups and regardless of whether individual perceivers judged both groups or only one. The categorization effect tracked changes in t...

A higher number of socially anxious users were found as more joined social network sites. Since commerce has become an important issue, this study investigated the effect anxiety on online users’ intention. Online interactions are hypothesized to influence intention directly or indirectly through support. 427 effective samples collected from Facebook users, and results confirmed most causal eff...