BACKGROUND Two specific cognitive constructs that have been implicated in the development and maintenance of anxiety symptoms are anxiety sensitivity and emotional reasoning, both of which relate to the experience and meaning of physical symptoms of arousal or anxiety. The interpretation of physical symptoms has been particularly implicated in theories of social anxiety disorder, where internal...

Abstract Theoretical models of social anxiety (SA) propose bidirectional relationships between SA, interpretation biases, and safety behaviors (Safe-B). However, longitudinal studies evaluating these are scarce. The main objective this study was to analyze the biases (from ambiguous situations faces), Safe-B, SA. A two-time carried out with participation 575 vocational training students ( M = 1...

Lambert et al. (2003) suggested that stereotyping could be thought of as automatic (implicit) responses that may become magnified in certain social settings through a loss of cognitive control. This type of explanation seems reasonable; however, to date, no attempts have been made to provide a more thorough, mechanistic (computational) explanation of the exact processes underlying the phenomeno...

Modifying threat related biases in attention and interpretation has been shown to successfully reduce global symptoms of anxiety in high anxious and clinically anxious samples (termed Cognitive Bias Modification, CBM). However, the possibility that CBM can be used as a way to prevent anxiety associated with an upcoming real-life stressful event in vulnerable populations has yet to be systematic...

Suicidal ideation has been linked to a bias toward interpreting ambiguous information in consistently less positive or more negative manners ( positive/negative interpretation bias), implying that information-processing biases might distort beliefs thought inspire suicidal (e.g., those regarding burdensomeness). Therefore, the present study, we examined whether and highlighted theories of suici...

Interpretation bias and inflexibility have been implicated in a wide range of psychopathologies, including affective disorders involving persecutory ideation. Existing tasks that measure both interpretation (which is essential as can make individuals appear inflexible) rely heavily on verbal stimuli, which may be suboptimal for certain applications, neuroimaging developmental studies. To overco...