Competition effects of threatening faces in social anxiety

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1050-1060

  Wieser, Matthias J ^a,b   McTeague, Lisa M ^a   Keil, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Social anxiety; Steady state visual evoked potentials; Threatening faces

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE POTENTIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870883804     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027069     Document Type: Article

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