Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Author "Romano, Mia"
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Autobiographical memory retrieval and appraisal in social anxiety disorder
Moscovitch, David A.; Vidovic, Vanja; Lenton-Brym, Ariella P.; Dupasquier, Jessica R.; Barber, Kevin C.; Hudd, Taylor; Zabara, Nick; Romano, Mia (Elsevier, 2018-08-01)Individuals with social anxiety disorder (SADs; n = 41) and healthy controls (HCs; n = 40) were administered the Waterloo Images and Memories Interview, in which they described mental images that they tend to experience ... -
Coping with negative mental images in social anxiety disorder: Investigating the potential benefits of image morphing
Vidovic, Vanja; Romano, Mia; Moscovitch, David A. (Sage, 2019-01-31)Negative mental imagery contributes to symptom maintenance in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Here, we investigated the effects of image morphing, a brief mental strategy designed to facilitate access to positive images. ... -
The effects of imagery rescripting on memory outcomes in social anxiety disorder
Romano, Mia; Moscovitch, David A.; Huppert, Jonathan D.; Reimer, Susanna G.; Moscovitch, Morris (Elsevier, 2020-01)Imagery rescripting (IR) is an effective intervention for social anxiety disorder (SAD) that targets negative autobiographical memories. IR has been theorized to work through various memory mechanisms, including modifying ... -
The effects of positive interpretation bias on cognitive reappraisal and social performance: Implications for social anxiety disorder
Romano, Mia; Moscovitch, David A.; Saini, Prabhjot; Huppert, Jonathan D. (Elsevier, 2020-08)People with social anxiety disorder (SAD) lack non-socially anxious individuals' tendency to interpret ambiguous social information in a positively biased manner. To gain a better understanding of the specific in-vivo ... -
Imagery Rescripting of Painful Memories in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Qualitative Analysis of Needs Fulfillment and Memory Updating
Romano, Mia; Hudd, Taylor; Huppert, Jonathan D.; Reimer, Susanna G.; Moscovitch, David A. (Springer, 2020-09-19)Background Imagery rescripting (IR) is an effective intervention for social anxiety disorder (SAD) that targets autobiographical memories of painful past events. IR is thought to promote needs fulfillment and memory ... -
Social Anxiety is Associated with Impaired Memory for Imagined Social Events with Positive Outcomes
Romano, Mia; Tran, Emma; Moscovitch, David (Taylor & Francis, 2020)Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder suggest that memory biases for negative social information contribute to symptoms of social anxiety (SA). However, it remains unclear whether memory biases in SA are related to ... -
Social problem solving in social anxiety disorder
Romano, Mia; Moscovitch, David A.; Ma, Ruofan; Huppert, Jonathan D. (Elsevier, 2019-12)Successful social problem solving requires both an adaptive orientation toward the problem and the necessary skills to generate relevant and effective solutions. Surprisingly few studies have examined social problem solving ...