I blush, therefore I will be judged negatively: influence of false blush feedback on anticipated others' judgments and facial coloration in high and low blushing-fearfuls

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 541-547

  Dijk, Corine ^a   Voncken, Marisol J ^b   de Jong, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive model for erythrophobia; Fear of blushing; Judgmental biases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; ERYTHROPHOBIA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOBIA;

BLUSHING; FEAR; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349122885     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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