Browsing Waterloo Research by Subject "avoidance"
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Fears of receiving compassion from others predict safety behaviour use in social anxiety disorder over and above fears of negative self-portrayal
(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, ... -
Visual attention to threat during stove-checking in people high in checking behaviour
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2022-10)Leading models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) state that hypervigilance to threat is a factor in compulsion persistence; however, previous research on attention deployment in OCD is mixed. The current study examines ...