Extant cognitive behavioral models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) have primarily focused
on cognitions and behaviors that maintain the disorder. Emotional aspects of SAD have …

Cognitive approaches to depression have benefitted from recent research on belief
updating, examining how new information is used to alter beliefs. This review presents …

Dampening responses to positive affect have been posited to confer vulnerability to
depression, but longitudinal studies have not consistently shown dampening tendencies to …

Depressive disorders are common in autistic adults, but few studies have examined the
extent to which common depression questionnaires are psychometrically appropriate for use …

When people receive feedback from others, this is an opportunity for them to update their
self-views. People with mental health problems (eg, depression), however, often have …

The inability to experience pleasure or interest in activities (commonly referred to in clinical
settings as anhedonia) is characteristic of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder …

Previous research on expectation updating in relation to psychopathology used to treat
expectation-confirming information and expectation-disconfirming information as binary …

Abstract Interpretation bias and inflexibility have been implicated in a wide range of
psychopathologies, including affective disorders and disorders involving persecutory …

Processing social feedback optimistically may maintain positive self-beliefs and stable social
relationships. Conversely, a lack of this optimistic bias in depression and social anxiety may …

Research on pathophysiological mechanisms supporting anxiety development in youth has
traditionally focused on the role of threat systems. However, emerging research suggests …