Browsing Psychology by Author "Moscovitch, David A."
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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 ... -
Effects of Mask-Wearing on Social Anxiety: An Exploratory Review
Saint, Sidney A.; Moscovitch, David A. (Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-01)Background A unique feature of the global coronavirus pandemic has been the widespread adoption of mask-wearing as a public health measure to minimize the risk of contagion. Little is known about the effects of increased ... -
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 ... -
Fears of receiving compassion from others predict safety behaviour use in social anxiety disorder over and above fears of negative self-portrayal
Ho, Jolie T.K.; Dupasquier, Jessica R.; Scarfe, Molly L.; Moscovitch, David A. (Elsevier, 2021-05)Why do people with social anxiety disorder (SAD) engage in the use of safety behaviours? While past research has established that fears of negative self-portrayal are strongly associated with safety behaviour use in SAD, ... -
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 ... -
The moderating effects of reported pre-pandemic social anxiety, symptom impairment, and current stressors on mental health and affiliative adjustment during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
Ho, Jolie T.K.; Moscovitch, David A. (Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-29)Background and objectives Individuals with social anxiety (SA) have well-established fears of being negatively evaluated and exposing self-perceived flaws to others. However, the unique impacts of pre-existing SA on ... -
Practicing self-compassion weakens the relationship between fear of receiving compassion and the desire to conceal negative experiences from others
Dupasquier, Jessica R.; Kelly, Allison C.; Moscovitch, David A.; Vidovic, Vanja (Springer, 2018-04)Disclosure of personal distress is linked to important inter- and intrapersonal benefits. However, people who tend to view self-disclosure as being risky are likely to conceal their feelings and forgo opportunities to ... -
Social Anxiety and the Generation of Positivity During Dyadic Interaction: Curiosity and Authenticity are the Keys to Success
Barber, Kevin C.; Michaelis, Maggie A.M.; Moscovitch, David A. (Elsevier, 2021-03-31)What drives positive affective and interpersonal experiences during social interaction? Undergraduates with high (n = 63) or low (n = 56) trait social anxiety (SA) were paired with unfamiliar low SA partners in a 45-minute ... -
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 ...