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- Title
A DIFFERENTIAL PATTERN OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY RETRIEVAL IN SOCIAL PHOBIC AND NONANXIOUS INDIVIDUALS.
- Authors
Amy Wenzel; Megan M. Werner; Cassandra K. Cochran; Craig S. Holt
- Abstract
The present study examined characteristics of autobiographical memories retrieved by individuals with social phobia (n=15) and nonanxious individuals (n=17). Participants were presented with social threat, positive, and neutral cue words and instructed to retrieve the first specific personal memory that came to mind. Memories were coded for retrieval latency, overgenerality (vs. specificity), and affective tone. Nonanxious individuals, rather than social phobic individuals, demonstrated a bias toward the retrieval of specific negative memories when cued by social threat words. Significant omnibus results were attenuated when self-reported depression was included as a covariate in analyses. These results suggest that memories cued by social threat words are particularly salient for nonanxious individuals but not for individuals with social phobia and that depressive symptoms must be accounted for in studies examining cognitive biases toward threat.
- Subjects
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory; SOCIAL phobia; PHOBIAS; MEMORY; DEPRESSED persons; MENTAL depression
- Publication
Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2004, Vol 32, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1352-4658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s1352465804001006