Social anxiety predicts unconsciously provoked emotional responses to facial expression

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 172-176

  Tsunoda, Tomoya ^a   Yoshino, Aihide ^a   Furusawa, Teruyuki ^b   Miyazaki, Masaki ^a   Takahashi, Yoshitomo ^c   Nomura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Saitama Gakuen University   (Japan)

^c Division of Behavioral Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic response; Facial expression; Preattentive; Skin conductance; Social anxiety; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 42449092577     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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