What are the major vulnerabilities in people with social anxiety? What are the most
promising directions for translational research pertaining to this condition? The present …

Implicit cognitive processing is theorized to have a central role in many forms of
psychopathology. In the current review, we focus on implicit associations, by which we mean …

Visual search paradigms have provided evidence for the enhanced capture of attention by
threatening faces. Especially in social anxiety, hypervigilance for threatening faces has been …

Depression is theorized to be caused in part by biased cognitive processing of emotional
information. Yet, prior research has adopted a reductionist approach that does not …

Distractor suppression allows us to remain on-task in the presence of distractions by filtering
task-irrelevant information from ongoing cognitive processing and responding …

We sought to explore the daily association between shame and self-criticism, and the extent
to which this association varies as a function of social anxiety symptoms. Fifty-nine …

This article presents the theoretical, clinical, and practical arguments supporting a process‐
based transdiagnostic approach to psychotherapy. A working definition of “psychological …

People tend to overestimate the intensity and duration of affect (ie, impact bias) when
making predictions about their own and others' responding, termed affective and empathic …

Evolutionary models suggest that social anxiety (SA) is associated with sensitivity to status
loss. These models make several additional predictions concerning the strength as well as …

Objective Social anxiety is characterized by maladaptive self‐schemas about being socially
undesirable. Self‐schemas are deeply held beliefs which are derived from negative …