Negative mental imagery in public speaking anxiety: Forming cognitive resistance by taxing visuospatial working memory
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- 作者：Sophie R. Homer ; Catherine Deeprose ; catherine.deeprose@plymouth.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Jackie Andrade
- 关键词：EMDR ; Imagery ; Public speaking ; Social anxiety ; Eye movements ; Working memory
- 刊名：Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：March 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：50
- 期：Complete
- 页码：77-82
- 全文大小：274 K
文摘
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The impact of eye movement techniques were tested in relation to negative imagery in social anxiety.
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Participants reported visual, negative, mental images representative of their public speaking anxiety.
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Eye movements reduced vividness more than an auditory task, supporting the modality-specific working memory hypothesis.
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Reduced image vividness was associated with reduced anxiety in response to an imagined, novel public speaking scenario.