title: Memory bias in social phobia.
abstract: To examine memory bias for social threat in social phobics, four studies are reported in which social phobic and nonclinical Ss are compared on their retrieval of threat-relevant information. Study 1 measured standard recall and recognition of threat, neutral, and positive words, while Study 2 assessed retrieval of these words through implicit and explicit tasks. The two final studies attempted to increase the validity of the procedures. Study 3 examined recall of feedback in a hypothetical public performance task and Study 4 examined autobiographical memory for social and neutral situations. All four studies consistently failed to find any evidence for biased retrieval processes in social phobics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Rapee
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: McCallum
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Melville
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ravenscroft
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rodney
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D014825:Vocabulary