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They identified two groups: one with adaptive cognitive patterns (low biases, high executive functioning) and one with more maladaptive patterns (high interpretation bias, good alerting but poor executive functioning), with higher levels of social anxiety found in the second group. Their findings suggest that social anxiety symptoms are primarily associated with interpretation bias, rather than an attention bias towards threatening stimuli."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2025.102002_bib70","unstructured":"One of the first and only studies that quantified both positive and negative feedback-seeking behavior in clinical groups, including social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorders. 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In a replicated computational psychiatry approach, the authors also show that this effect appears specific to social anxiety, rather than anxious-depression, obsessive-compulsive thoughts, or cognitive reasoning."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2025.102002_bib74","unstructured":"In this study, the authors assess two competing goals that can drive the decision to share information (here, advice) with other people, specifically competing to gain influence versus blending in with the group. They find that socially anxious individuals share information in an attempt not to gain influence, by giving advice that was similar to that of rival advisers, and that they exhibit more negative social comparisons with rivals."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2025.102002_bib75","unstructured":"This work presents an interesting account of altered counterfactual learning in social anxiety. In an online social approach-avoidance task, participants had to learn from trial-and-error which partner to approach or avoid, then after initial learning, the contingencies are reversed, such that the previously avoided partner should now be approached (positive updating) and vice versa for the other partner (negative updating). Socially anxious individuals exhibited a specific impairment in learning in the positive updating condition, even though they were being informed of the counterfactual (i.e. that a positive outcome would have occurred had they approached the partner). This suggests a difficulty in updating beliefs about previously avoided social situations that should no longer be avoided, possibly contributing to the maintenance of avoidance behavior in social anxiety."}],"container-title":["Current Opinion in Psychology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S2352250X25000156?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S2352250X25000156?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,26]],"date-time":"2026-03-26T08:17:57Z","timestamp":1774513077000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2352250X25000156"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,4]]},"references-count":74,"alternative-id":["S2352250X25000156"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.copsyc.2025.102002","relation":{},"ISSN":["2352-250X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2352-250X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,4]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Elsevier","name":"publisher","label":"This article is maintained by"},{"value":"Biased information-seeking and information-integration in social anxiety","name":"articletitle","label":"Article Title"},{"value":"Current Opinion in Psychology","name":"journaltitle","label":"Journal Title"},{"value":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.copsyc.2025.102002","name":"articlelink","label":"CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version"},{"value":"article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"\u00a9 2025 The Author(s). 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