TY - JOUR
KW - selective attentional bias
KW - interpretive bias
KW - memory bias
AU - Michel W. Eysenck
AB - Social phobics possess a variety of cognitive biases, including selective attentional, interpretive, and memory biases. Of these biases, the most important is probably the interpretive bias in which social phobics exaggerate the inadequacy of their social behaviour. There are two main reasons why this interpretive bias is maintained: (1) social phobics engage in safetyseeking behaviours, which limit the feedback about their social behaviour that they obtain from other people; and (2) social phobics attend to their own internal physiological symptoms, and use this information to infer how anxious they seem to others. An important part of cognitivebehaviour therapy should involve attempts to reduce to eliminate interpretive bias by decreasing social phobics  use of safety-seeking behaviours and by altering their attentional focus from internal sensations to the reactions of others.
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - Social phobics possess a variety of cognitive biases, including selective attentional, interpretive, and memory biases. Of these biases, the most important is probably the interpretive bias in which social phobics exaggerate the inadequacy of their social behaviour. There are two main reasons why this interpretive bias is maintained: (1) social phobics engage in safetyseeking behaviours, which limit the feedback about their social behaviour that they obtain from other people; and (2) social phobics attend to their own internal physiological symptoms, and use this information to infer how anxious they seem to others. An important part of cognitivebehaviour therapy should involve attempts to reduce to eliminate interpretive bias by decreasing social phobics  use of safety-seeking behaviours and by altering their attentional focus from internal sensations to the reactions of others.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 1999
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 275
EP - 284
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Cognitive biases in social phobia
VL - 5
ER -