Cognitive biases in social anxiety : impact on the comprehension of verbal irony

Social anxiety is associated with a number of cognitive biases that influence the way that social information is processed. One particular bias that has been identified, coined a judgmental bias (Foa, Franklin, Perry, & Herbert, 1996), involves overestimation of the probability and costs associa...

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Main Author: Trew, Jennifer L.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32358