Fig. 4

Study procedure flowchart

Note. CBM-I cognitive bias modification for interpretation, SIAS Social Interaction Anxiety Scale [38], M.I.N.I. Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview [39], SAD social anxiety disorder, SST scrambled sentence task [37], CEQ Credibility/Expectancy Questionnaire [36], AST-R Ambiguous Scenarios Recognition Task [13], PANAS-NA positive and negative affect schedule, negative affect subscale [51], Open question 1 “If you have just stated that your social anxiety has reduced since participating in the study, please describe the change in 1–2 sentences. If not, simply write ‘no’”; Open question 2 “What do you think was the purpose of the main cognitive task?”, *Instruments presented in bold were included in the analysis of this manuscript, while the remaining measures were not included due to the small sample size obtained