Biased Cognitions & Social Anxiety: Building a Global Framework for Integrating Cognitive, Behavioral, and Neural Processes

• Main Author: Wolf-Gero Lange (auth)
• Other Authors: Pierre Philippot (auth), Alexandre Heeren (auth), Quincy Wong (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; clinical psychology; Behavior Therapy; experimental cognitive psychopathology; cognitive biases; Affective Neuroscience; anxiety disorders and cognitive bias modification; Cognitive Therapy; social anxiety
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Social anxiety (SA) is a common and incapacitating disorder that has been associated with seriously impaired career, academic, and general social functioning. Regarding epidemiological data, SA has a lifetime prevalence of 12.1% and is the fourth most common psychopathological disorder (Kessler et a...