Looking on the bright side in social anxiety: the potential benefit of promoting positive mental imagery.

Current cognitive models of social phobia converge on the view that negative imagery is a key factor in the development and maintenance of the disorder. Research to date has predominantly focussed on the detrimental impact of negative imagery on cognitive bias and anxiety symptoms, while the potenti...

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Main Author: Arnaud ePictet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00043/full