Attentional bias for words and faces in social anxiety

By Reza Pishyar, L. Harris, R. Menzies. 2004

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Internet-Based Attention Training for Social Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2012, background): “In the study of Pishyar et al. (2004), socially anxious individuals showed a biased attention towards threat faces but not towards threat words.”
Clinical Implications of Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretative Biases in Social Anxiety: An Integrative Literature Review (2013, background): “There is consistent evidence that people with social anxiety have both attentional and interpretation biases (e.g., Asmundson and Stein 1994; Pineles and Mineka 2005; Pishyar et al. 2004).”
The effects of emotion on attention: A review of attentional processing of emotional information (2010, background): “Pishyar, Harris, and Menzies ( 2004 ) found a classic emotion-congruent pattern of bias to negative faces in subclincially high social anxiety and toward positive faces in a low group.”
Preliminary Study of Attention Training to Threat and Neutral Faces on Anxious Reactivity to a Social Stressor in Social Anxiety (2010, background): “Evidence in support of this hypothesis are probe detection studies that show socially anxious individuals exhibit attentional bias to threat (Mogg and Bradley 2002; Mogg et al. 2004; Pishyar et al. 2004 ).”