Threatening faces and social anxiety: A literature review

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 669-690

  Staugaard, Søren Risløv ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive factors; Neural correlates; Social anxiety; Threatening faces

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPECTANCY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANXIETY; HOSTILITY; PERCEPTION; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955049131     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2010.05.001     Document Type: Review

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