TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1989//
TI  - Social anxiety, evaluative threat and incidental recall of trait words
JO  - Anxiety research
A1  - Claeys, Willem
SP  - 27
EP  - 43
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
N2  - Abstract Subjects high in dispositional social anxiety, as compared to subjects low in it, are found to show better incidental recall of self-descriptive unlikable trait words in a Craik and Tulving paradigm (Study 1) but not likable trait words. This phenomenon is not found when anxiety is experimentally created through exposing subjects to social-evaluative threat (Study 2), and is likely to be a consequence of the negatively biased self-schema in trait-anxious subjects. Anxious self-preoccupation created through experimentally induced evaluative stress results into poor incidental recall of all words (Study 2). The debilitating effect of anxious self-preoccupation seems to be the joint result of reduced attention to task-relevant stimuli in working memory and of reduced accessibility of preexisting cognitive structures in long-term memory. Emotional arousal per se cannot account for the observed performance deficit. The relationship between anxiety, depression, and self-focused attention is discussed.<p /> 
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SN  - 0891-7779
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917778908249324
ID  - ref1
ER  -