Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) are frequently present in the general population as
patients age with approximately a third of individuals experiencing LUTS during their …

Safety behaviors are considered an important factor in the maintenance of social anxiety
disorder (SAD). Safety behaviors are typically employed by socially anxious individuals to …

Cognitive-behavioral models emphasize maintaining effects of safety behavior in anxiety
disorders. Experimental evidence for deleterious effects of those behaviors is less …

Avoidance has long been viewed as an etiological mechanism of anxiety disorders. Of more
recent focus within this literature is the distinction between avoidance that is trait-based …

Socially anxious individuals struggle with establishing and maintaining social relationships.
We hypothesized that, when socially anxious, people often turn to nostalgia, which alleviates …

Auditory hallucinations rank amongst the most treatment resistant symptoms of
schizophrenia, with command hallucinations being the most distressing, high risk and …

Theoretical models of social anxiety (SA) propose bidirectional relationships between SA,
interpretation biases, and safety behaviors (Safe-B). However, longitudinal studies …

Background Social anxiety is thought to be maintained by habitual safety behaviors, actions
undertaken to avoid some feared outcome. Safety behaviors may act as a risk factor for the …

This study examined the effect of safety behavior on belief change during a behavioral
experiment. Highly spider fearful participants (N= 126) evaluated a targeted negative belief …

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