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Kevin McKiernan
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BIOGRAPHY

Co-director of the Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Research, White Plains, New York. His contributions to SAGE Publications's  Encyclopedia of Human Development (2006) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

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A flowchart illustrating a cycle in social anxiety disorder, where social interaction leads to negative self-evaluation, which causes heightened physiological arousal, then increased self-focused attention, reinforcing the cycle.
social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), a type of anxiety disorder characterized by a fear of interacting with people, due to worries over the possibility of being negatively scrutinized and judged by them. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) was once referred to as social phobia; however, the label of “phobia,”…
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