AI Article Synopsis
- Socially anxious individuals tend to focus more on threatening information, but their anxiety can reduce this tendency.
- In the study, researchers altered the ratio of real words to nonwords to see how it affected attentional bias in socially anxious participants.
- The findings supported the idea that lower word ratios led to increased attention interference from social threat words among those with social phobia.
Article Abstract
Socially anxious individuals are characterized by an attentional bias for threat-related information. However, this attentional bias to threat may be attenuated [Behav. Res. Ther. 34 (1996) 945] when these individuals are anxious. In the present study, we attempted to increase subjects' Stroop interference by changing the frequency of words to nonwords. We hypothesized that when the ratio of words to nonwords was low, individuals with social phobia (SPs) would show increased Stroop interference, but only for words related to social threat. Results were consistent with this hypothesis.
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