ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2024
Hooking the Self Onto the Past: How Positive Autobiographical Memory Retrieval Benefits People With Social Anxiety.
Article in Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Refining processing of positive memories technique: client perspectives on components, format, and feasibility.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Trial
- Effects of social anxiety and self-schemas on the impact and meaningfulness of positive versus negative social autobiographical memories.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Empathy-Mediated Narrative Reconstruction of Autobiographical Memory: An Integrative Review of Theory, Evidence, and Applications.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Autobiographical memory retrieval in the context of self-schema updating: Does specific recall have power?Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Positive autobiographical memories in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: An exploratory intervention study.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2026Article
- Enhancing positive memory schemas with tDCS: a pilot study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Update on "Emotion and autobiographical memory": 14 years of advances in understanding functions, constructions, and consequences.Physics of life reviews · 2024Review
- Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Do people with social anxiety (SA) benefit from positive memory retrieval that heightens self-relevant meaning? In this preregistered study, an analog sample of 255 participants with self-reported clinically significant symptoms of SA were randomly assigned to retrieve and process a positive social-autobiographical memory by focusing on either its self-relevant meaning (deep processing) or its perceptual features (superficial processing). Participants were then socially excluded and instructed to reimagine their positive memory. Analyses revealed that participants assigned to the deep processing condition experienced significantly greater improvements than participants in the superficial processing condition in positive affect, social safeness, and positive beliefs about others during initial memory retrieval and in negative and positive beliefs about the self following memory reactivation during recovery from exclusion. These novel findings highlight the potential utility of memory-based interventions for SA that work by "hooking" self-meaning onto recollections of positive interpersonal experiences that elicit feelings of social acceptance.
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