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| C R HirschSummaryAffiliation: King's College London Country: UK Publications
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Negative self-imagery in social anxiety contaminates social interactionsColette R Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Memory 12:496-506. 2004..Furthermore, the conversation was contaminated since both groups of participants rated its quality as poorer in the negative image condition...- Information-processing bias in social phobiaColette R Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Clin Psychol Rev 24:799-825. 2004..The clinical implications of social-phobia-related information-processing biases are discussed and possible avenues for future research are outlined... - The causal role of negative imagery in social anxiety: a test in confident public speakersColette R Hirsch
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8NX, UK
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 37:159-70. 2006..Given that participants do not currently have anxiety problems, the findings are consistent with the idea that negative self-imagery has a causal role in the development and maintenance of social anxiety... - Inducing an interpretation bias changes self-imagery: a preliminary investigationColette R Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:2173-81. 2007..We suggest that this finding is consistent with the hypothesis that inferential biases and content of self-images can interact with each other and may together serve to maintain social anxiety... - Imagery special issue: underestimation of auditory performance in social phobia and the use of audio feedbackColette R Hirsch
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 38:447-58. 2007..Auditory feedback partially corrected this underestimation of auditory performance... - Imagery and interpretations in social phobia: support for the combined cognitive biases hypothesisColette R Hirsch
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, University of London, De Crespigny Park, UK
Behav Ther 37:223-36. 2006..Clinical implications and the potential utility of examining the combined influence of other cognitive biases are highlighted... - Self-images play a causal role in social phobiaColette R Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Behav Res Ther 41:909-21. 2003..Taken together, these results support the hypothesis that negative self-imagery has a causal role in maintaining social phobia... - Negative self-imagery blocks inferencesC R Hirsch
Department of Psychology, P O Box 77, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Behav Res Ther 41:1383-96. 2003..In contrast, and as predicted, non-anxious volunteers who were trained to hold a negative image in mind lacked any non-threatening inferential bias, and also experienced higher levels of state anxiety... - Facilitating a benign interpretation bias in a high socially anxious populationRebecca Murphy
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:1517-29. 2007..Possible implications of the findings for therapeutic interventions in social phobia are discussed... 
The contribution of attentional bias to worry: distinguishing the roles of selective engagement and disengagementColette R Hirsch
King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
J Anxiety Disord 25:272-7. 2011..These findings suggest that facilitated attentional engagement with threat meanings may causally contribute to variability in worry...- Engaging in imagery versus verbal processing of worry: Impact on negative intrusions in high worriersCaroline Stokes
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Behav Res Ther 48:418-23. 2010..Furthermore, imagery was associated with a decrease in negative intrusions. The results support the theory that the predominantly verbal nature of worry may be responsible for the uncontrollability and maintenance of worry... 
Facilitating a benign attentional bias reduces negative thought intrusionsSarra Hayes
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, England
J Abnorm Psychol 119:235-40. 2010..These findings suggest that attentional bias plays a causal role in worry and that its modification can reduce excessive worry...- The effect of attention modification with explicit vs. minimal instructions on worryGeorgina Krebs
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Behav Res Ther 48:251-6. 2010..These findings suggest that an attentional bias towards threatening information plays a role in worry persistence, and that explicit instructions may be helpful in modifying this bias... - The effects of modifying interpretation bias on worry in generalized anxiety disorderSarra Hayes
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Behav Res Ther 48:171-8. 2010..These findings show that it is possible to induce a more benign interpretive bias in GAD clients and that this reduces negative thought intrusions... - Looking on the bright side: accessing benign meanings reduces worryColette R Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
J Abnorm Psychol 118:44-54. 2009..These findings suggest that enhancing access to benign outcomes is an effective method of reducing both the persistence of worry and its detrimental consequences... - Worry in imagery and verbal form: effect on residual working memory capacityEleanor Leigh
King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
Behav Res Ther 49:99-105. 2011.... - Life review of an older adult with memory difficultiesC R Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:261-5. 1999..LRT was beneficial for this client despite her memory difficulties, since, following therapy, she was no longer distressed when thinking about her childhood...