Socially anxious individuals lack unintentional mimicry

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 561-564

  Vrijsen, Janna N ^a   Lange, Wolf Gero ^b   Becker, Eni S ^b   Rinck, Mike ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mimicry; Social anxiety; Social behavior; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIRTUAL REALITY; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN RELATION; IMITATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTENTION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952880167     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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