Processing of facial affect under social threat in socially anxious adults: Mood matters

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 196-206

  Leber, Simone ^a   Heidenreich, Thomas ^b   Stangier, Ulrich ^a   Hofmann, Stefan G ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ESSLINGEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive bias; recognition bias; Emotional processing; Facial affect; Information processing; Negative evaluation; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CULTURE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63849311207     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20525     Document Type: Article

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