Teachman, Bethany, Professor, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences September 19, 2015 It’s not a heart attack; you’re just out of breath! How can we understand why an intelligent, normally rational person with a spider phobia has refused to go down to her basement for ten years, why a person with social phobia sees only the one scowling face in a room full of smiles, or why a person with panic disorder is convinced that the 200th panic attack is the one that will bring on a heart attack? Each of these seemingly irrational beliefs and behaviors is likely fueled by some aspect of biased thinking, whereby anxious individuals interpret cues in a threatening way. Bethany Teachman, Professor and Director, Clinical Training, Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences will discuss how this biased thinking contributes to the onset and persistence of anxiety problems, and how you can change this thinking to relieve anxiety.