Altering cognitive biases associated with social anxiety has been suggested as potentially beneficial; however, little is known about the comparative effectiveness of such interventions.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Multisession Cognitive Bias Modification Targeting Multiple Biases in Adolescents with Elevated Social Anxiety (2018) · doi

  Research studies applying cognitive bias modification of attention (CBM-A) and interpretations (CBM-I) training to reduce adolescent anxiety by targeting associated cognitive biases have found mixed results.

  Keywords: cognitive applying bias modification attention interpretations training reduce adolescent anxiety targeting associated biases found mixed
• The effect of a single-session attention modification program on response to a public-speaking challenge in socially anxious individuals. (2008) · doi

  Research suggests that individuals with social anxiety show an attention bias for threat-relevant information However, few studies have directly manipulated attention to examine its effect on anxiety.

  Keywords: anxiety attention suggests individuals social show bias threat relevant information directly manipulated examine effect
• Cognitive bias modification for social anxiety: protocol for a living systematic review of human studies and meta-analysis (2025) · doi

  Altering cognitive biases associated with social anxiety has been suggested as potentially beneficial; however, little is known about the comparative effectiveness of such interventions.

  Keywords: altering cognitive biases associated social anxiety potentially beneficial little known comparative effectiveness interventions