Memory bias does not generalize across anxiety disorders

Marylene Cloitre, James Cancienne, Richard G. Heimberg, Craig S. Holt, Michael Liebowitz

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Abstract

Individuals with social phobia were compared with normal controls on their memory for socially-related threat words in contrast to positive and neutral words. A memory paradigm used in a previous study of panic disorder patients [Cloitre, M. & Liebowitz, M. R. (1991) Cognitive Therapy and Research, 15, 609-619] was applied to test the generalizability of findings of threat-biased memory in a semantic memory task (free recall) and a perceptual memory task (high-speed recognition) to social phobics. No evidence of threat-related memory bias among social phobics was obtained. Since both the social phobic and control groups showed better memory for affectively valenced (threat and positive) compared to neutral information, it is unlikely that the absence of threat-biased memory among social phobics was the result of insensitive measurement.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)305-307
Number of pages3
JournalBehaviour Research and Therapy
Volume33
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1995

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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