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Social anxiety and information processing biases : An integrated theoretical perspective

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Peschard, Virginie [UCL] Philippot, Pierre [UCL]

Models of anxiety disorders posit that information processing biases towards threat may result from an imbalance between top-down attentional control processes and bottom-up attentional processes, such that anxiety could reduce the influence of the former and increase the influence of the latter. However, researchers have recently pointed to limitations of the top-down/bottom-up terminology and outlined the additional contribution of memory processes to attention guidance. The goal of this paper is to provide bridges between recent findings from cognitive psychology and anxiety disorders research. We first provide an integrative overview of the processes influencing the content of working memory, including the availability of attentional control, and the strengths of task goals, stimulus salience, selection history and long-term memory. We then illustrate the interest of this formulation to the study of information processing biases in anxiety disorders, with a specific focus on social anxiety.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article)
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2016
Language Anglais
Journal information "Cognition and Emotion" - Vol. 30, no.4, p. 762-777 (2016)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Routledge (Abingdon)
issn 0269-9931
e-issn 1464-0600
Publication status Accepté/Sous presse
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Keywords Social anxiety ; Information processing biases ; Working memory ; Attention guidance
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Bibliographic reference Peschard, Virginie ; Philippot, Pierre. Social anxiety and information processing biases : An integrated theoretical perspective. In: Cognition and Emotion, Vol. 30, no.4, p. 762-777 (2016)
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