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THE ROLE OF MEMORY PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL PHOBIA: IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED MEMORIES FOR ROLE-PLAYED SITUATIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2002

Meredith E. Coles ,
Cynthia L. Turk  and
Richard G. Heimberg
Meredith E. Coles
Affiliation:
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Cynthia L. Turk
Affiliation:
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Richard G. Heimberg
Affiliation:
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
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Abstract

Cognitive-behavioral models (Clark & Wells, 1995; Rapee & Heimberg, 1997) and recent research suggest that individuals with social phobia (SP) experience both images (Hackmann, Surawy, & Clark, 1998) and memories (Coles, Turk, Heimberg, & Fresco, 2001; Wells, Clark, & Ahmad, 1998) of anxiety-producing social situations from an observer perspective. The current study examines memory perspective for two role-played situations (speech and social interaction) at multiple time points (immediate and 3 weeks post) in 22 individuals with generalized SP and 30 non-anxious controls (NACs). At both time points, SPs recalled the role-plays from a more observer/less field perspective than did NACs. Further, over time, the memory perspective of SPs became even more observer/less field while the memory perspective of NAC remained relatively stable.

Keywords

Social phobiasocial anxiety disordermemory perspective
Type
Main Section
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 415 - 425
Copyright
© 2002 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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