“…However, social anxiety may be specifically characterized by aberrant processing of positive social information. Social anxiety has been related to diminished attentional allocation for positive social cues (Perowne & Mansell, 2002;Silvia, Allen, Beauchamp, Maschauer, & Workman, 2006;Taylor et al, 2010) and negatively biased processing of positive social information (Alden, Taylor, Mellings, & Laposa, 2008;Laposa, Cassin, & Rector, 2010;Yoon & Zinbarg, 2007). It has also been proposed that social anxiety may be associated with a more general positive affect deficit, related to a tendency to suppress emotions (Kashdan & Collins, 2010;Watson & Naragon-Gainey, 2010).…”