Lateralisation for processing facial emotion and anxiety: Contrasting state, trait and social anxiety

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1343-1349

  Bourne, Victoria J ^a   Vladeanu, Matei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimeric faces; Emotion lateralisation; Social anxiety; State anxiety; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SADNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ANXIETY; SURPRISE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954419670     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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