The relationship between blushing propensity, social anxiety and facial blood flow during embarrassment

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 561-567

  Drummond, Peter D ^a   Su, Daphne ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blushing propensity; Embarrassment; Facial blood flow; Fear of negative evaluation; Gender; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; EMBARRASSMENT; EMOTION; FACE BLOOD FLOW; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLUSHING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFORMANCE ANXIETY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SELF REPORT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84859632377     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.595775     Document Type: Article

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