Who is looking at me? The cone of gaze widens in social phobia

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 756-764

  Gamer, Matthias ^a   Hecht, Heiko ^b   Seipp, Nina ^b   Hiller, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye contact; Gaze cone; Gaze perception; Head orientation; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956118988     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.503117     Document Type: Article

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