Attention, Teleconferencing and Social Anxiety

"1. Participants will receive a brief standardized psychoeducation module, presented via a video recording.~2. Participants will then complete up to 10 analogue teleconferencing calls, each lasting a maximum of two minutes.~3. Between speeches participants will have a 1-minute break.~4. Participants will complete the subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) before and after each speech trial.~The experimental attention guidance condition: (1) the intervention rationale will include information about the importance of visually attending to the faces of the audience; (2) participants will be given target audience members to focus their gaze on during the their impromptu response. They will be told that they should look at and focus on the target audience member for the whole response."

"1. Participants will receive a brief standardized psychoeducation module, presented via a video recording.~2. Participants will then complete up to 10 analogue teleconferencing calls, each lasting a maximum of two minutes.~3. Between speeches participants will have a 1-minute break.~4. Participants will complete the subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) before and after each speech trial."

"1. Participants will receive a brief standardized psychoeducation module, presented via a video recording.~ F~2. Participants will then complete up to 10 analogue teleconferencing calls, each lasting a maximum of two minutes. During each call participants will be prompted by one of the audience members.~3. Between speeches participants will have a 1-minute break.~4. Participants will complete the subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) before and after each speech trial.~The experimental attention control condition: (1) the intervention rationale will include information about the importance of attention control; (2) participants will be given target at the center of the screen to focus their gaze on during the their impromptu response. They will be told that they should look at and focus on the target for the whole response."