How do cognitive factors affect the onset and maintenance of social phobia? Explain and provide 3 specific examples to
illustrate your understanding.
What will be an ideal response?
Cognitive factors play a role in both the onset and maintenance of social phobia. It has been suggested that those
who develop social phobia may tend to expect that others will reject them or view them negatively, setting the
stage for a fear of any situation in which one will be evaluated. An expectation that one will behave in a socially
unacceptable fashion can also contribute to the development of social phobia, as well as increase the chance that
one's behavior will be unacceptable. Thus, both negative expectations of how one will be perceived and how one
will act can contribute to social phobia. These cognitive distortions may then maintain social phobia by
increasing social awkwardness and a belief in negative evaluations. There is also some evidence to suggest that
perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability, possibly resulting from social defeat, may also play a role
in the development of social phobia.
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