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KMID : 0981220100100020093
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2010 Volume.10 No. 2 p.93 ~ p.115
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Interpretational bias of social and emotional stimuli in social anxiety
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Yang Jae-Won
Oh Kyung-Ja
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Abstract
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Social phobia or social anxiety disorder is a common psychological disorder that may impair diverse social functions. Cognitive-behavioral model of social anxiety suggests that various information processing biases play crucial roles in the generation and maintenance of social anxiety. Interpretation bias, one of the information biases in social anxiety, refers to the cognitive tendency toward negative interpretation of social situations and emotional stimuli. Previous studies using social scenario paradigm suggest that social anxiety is characterized by negative interpretation of social situation. On the other hand, on-line experiments adopted with experimental cognitive psychology have provided that social anxiety groups are different from normal controls in terms of the lack of positive interpretation. Further, the recent empirical studies using the pictures of facial expression as experimental stimuli have revealed inconsistent findings, depending on the experimental paradigm. This paper reviews and integrates the diverse empirical findings across studies. Finally clinical implications as well as future research directions are discussed.
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KEYWORD
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Social anxiety, Cognitive behavioral model, Interpretation bias
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