Social anxiety enhances recognition of task-irrelevant threat words
Published in Acta Psychologica, 2019
Recommended citation: Yeung, R. C., & Fernandes, M. A. (2019). Social anxiety enhances recognition of task-irrelevant threat words. Acta Psychologica, 194, 69–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.01.015
Memory biases in high social anxiety were shown to be specific for threat-related distractors rather than general, for all distractors, and emerged only when the to-be-remembered target information was also threatening.
Recommended citation: Yeung, R. C., & Fernandes, M. A. (2019). Social anxiety enhances recognition of task-irrelevant threat words. Acta Psychologica, 194, 69–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.01.015