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Why Social Anxiety Persists: An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Safety Behaviours as a Maintaining Factor

McManus, Sacadura & Clark (2008) · Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 39(2)

We use this paper in 2 places in the academy · 1 stated limit

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What the study found

Adults with high social anxiety had conversations in a lab. When the researchers changed how much the adults used their safety habits and how much they watched themselves, their anxiety changed, their opinion of their own performance changed, and the way they came across to the other person changed too.

What the study cannot prove

The adults in the experiment were volunteers with high social anxiety, not patients. Each had short conversations in a lab. The study shows the effect of safety behaviours and self-focus within one conversation, not over weeks.

Limits we note on the exercises

These were volunteers, not patients, and the conversations were short and arranged. The paper studies safety habits as a group. Choosing the habit of planning sentences is our own step.

Where we use it

We use this paper in 2 places in the academy. If the paper turned out to be wrong, we would have to change everything in this list. Some of the exercise instructions below are part of Gold. You can read every finding for free.

Other papers used in the same places

These papers are used in the same topics and videos as this one. That does not mean the papers agree with each other. It only means that the same exercises use both.

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A real study. We tell you what it found, how many people were in it, and what it can't prove.

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