Self-Focused Attention and Social Anxiety: The Effects of Experimentally Heightened Self-Awareness on Fear, Blushing, Cognitions, and Social Skills

Effect of self-focused attention on the

Effect of self-focused attention on the startle reflex, heart rate, and memory performance among socially anxious and nonanxious individuals

✍ Georgia Panayiotou; Scott R. Vrana 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 144 KB

The present study examined the effect of self‐focused attention on the startle reflex and heart rate and assessed the assumption that socially anxious individuals become self‐focused in evaluative situations. Twenty‐five high and 30 low socially anxious men performed a digit recall task under evalua