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Abstract
This review critically discusses the empirical evidence for information-processing
biases in social phobia. Distortions in attention, interpretation, and memory processes
are analyzed as they apply to individuals with social phobia. The literature provides
evidence for a specific attentional bias towards socially threatening stimuli and
a specific interpretational/judgment bias towards self-relevant social information.
However, there is little evidence to suggest that social phobia is associated with
a memory bias for socially threatening stimuli. Furthermore, the relationship between
the empirical evidence from information processing studies and the cognitive model
of social phobia by Clark and Wells (1995) will be discussed.