Robert W Booth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4600813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Booth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Booth |
| SIGNATURE | BOOTH R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabancı Üniversitesi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7614-4519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Threat prioritisation under limited awareness in social anxiety: A review of masking and suppression paradigms
Social anxiety (SA) is characterised by heightened vigilance to socially evaluative threat, yet the extent to which this vigilance operates outside conscious awareness remains understudied. This review synthesises evidence from 11 studies investigating threat processing in individuals with SA or elevated SA traits, using masking and suppression paradigms to manipulate visual awareness. Across paradigms, samples, and contexts, findings on threat p…
A behavioural test of depression-related probability bias
Individuals high in depressive symptom severity show probability bias: they believe negative events are relatively probable, and positive events relatively improbable, compared to those with less severe symptoms. However, this has only ever been demonstrated using self-report measures, in which participants explicitly estimate events' probabilities: this leaves open the risk that "probability bias" is merely an artefact of response bias. We teste…
Probability, cost, and interpretation biases’ relationships with depressive and anxious symptom severity: Differential mediation by worry and repetitive negative thinking
People high in depressive or anxious symptom severity show repetitive negative thinking, including worry and rumination. They also show various cognitive phenomena, including probability, cost, and interpretation biases. Since there is conceptual overlap between these cognitive biases and repetitive negative thinking - all involve thinking about potential threats and misfortunes - we wondered whether repetitive negative thinking could account for…
The best possible self task has direct effects on expectancies and mood, and an indirect effect on anxiety symptom severity
The Best Possible Self task (BPS) is one of the best studied positive psychology interventions, and robustly improves optimism (expectancies) and mood. However, few studies have examined whether the task primarily affects expectancies, which then improve mood, or whether it primarily improves mood, which then affects expectancies. From 2023 to 2024, we conducted a well-powered, preregistered randomized controlled trial, with 240 unselected studen…
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth‐based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived highe…
Working memory regulates trait anxiety-related threat processing biases
High trait anxious individuals tend to show biased processing of threat. Correlational evidence suggests that executive control could be used to regulate such threat-processing. On this basis, we hypothesized that trait anxiety-related cognitive biases regarding threat should be exaggerated when executive control is experimentally impaired by loading working memory. In Study 1, 68 undergraduates read ambiguous vignettes under high and low working…
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Working memory regulates trait anxiety-related threat processing biases
High trait anxious individuals tend to show biased processing of threat. Correlational evidence suggests that executive control could be used to regulate such threat-processing. On this basis, we hypothesized that trait anxiety-related cognitive biases regarding threat should be exaggerated when executive control is experimentally impaired by loading working memory. In Study 1, 68 undergraduates read ambiguous vignettes under high and low working…
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth‐based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived highe…
Probability, cost, and interpretation biases’ relationships with depressive and anxious symptom severity: Differential mediation by worry and repetitive negative thinking
People high in depressive or anxious symptom severity show repetitive negative thinking, including worry and rumination. They also show various cognitive phenomena, including probability, cost, and interpretation biases. Since there is conceptual overlap between these cognitive biases and repetitive negative thinking - all involve thinking about potential threats and misfortunes - we wondered whether repetitive negative thinking could account for…
The best possible self task has direct effects on expectancies and mood, and an indirect effect on anxiety symptom severity
The Best Possible Self task (BPS) is one of the best studied positive psychology interventions, and robustly improves optimism (expectancies) and mood. However, few studies have examined whether the task primarily affects expectancies, which then improve mood, or whether it primarily improves mood, which then affects expectancies. From 2023 to 2024, we conducted a well-powered, preregistered randomized controlled trial, with 240 unselected studen…
A behavioural test of depression-related probability bias
Individuals high in depressive symptom severity show probability bias: they believe negative events are relatively probable, and positive events relatively improbable, compared to those with less severe symptoms. However, this has only ever been demonstrated using self-report measures, in which participants explicitly estimate events' probabilities: this leaves open the risk that "probability bias" is merely an artefact of response bias. We teste…
Threat prioritisation under limited awareness in social anxiety: A review of masking and suppression paradigms
Social anxiety (SA) is characterised by heightened vigilance to socially evaluative threat, yet the extent to which this vigilance operates outside conscious awareness remains understudied. This review synthesises evidence from 11 studies investigating threat processing in individuals with SA or elevated SA traits, using masking and suppression paradigms to manipulate visual awareness. Across paradigms, samples, and contexts, findings on threat p…
Psychology (5 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (4 works) · Anxiety (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (2 works) · Political science (2 works)