Rivkah Ginat-Frolich, Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, Jonathan D Huppert, Idan M Aderka, Lynn E Alden, Yair Bar-Haim, Eni S Becker, Amit Bernstein, Ronny Geva, Richard G Heimberg, Stefan G Hofmann, Todd B Kashdan, Ernst H W Koster, Joshua Lipsitz, Jon K Maner, David A Moscovitch, Pierre Philippot, Ronald M Rapee, Karin Roelofs, Thomas L Rodebaugh, Franklin R Schneier, Oliver C Schultheiss, Ben Shahar, Ulrich Stangier, Murray B Stein, Lusia Stopa, Charles T Taylor, Justin W Weeks, Matthias J Wieser
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 paper provides an integrative summary of basic and applied translational research on social anxiety, emphasizing vulnerability factors. It is divided into two subsections: intrapersonal and interpersonal. The intrapersonal section synthesizes research relating to (a) self-representations and self-referential processes; (b) emotions and their regulation; and (c) cognitive biases: attention, interpretation and judgment, and memory...
April 2024: Clinical Psychology Review