Reflecting on Positive Memories in Social Anxiety

This fully online study seeks to investigate the effects of positive memory recall in participants with high trait social anxiety. The primary research aim is to investigate the effects of positive social memory recall in participants with high levels of trait social anxiety. We anticipate that reflecting on a positive memory in a deep manner that is focused on its self-relevant meaning will be more effective for improving participants' positive affect, social safeness, and beliefs about the self and others and lowering negative affect over time in than a superficial processing control condition focused on the shallow, perceptual details of the positive memory.