Processing of emotional faces in social phobia

Mental Illness

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-20

  Staugaard, Søren Risløv ^a   Rosenberg, Nicole Kristjansen ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Eye movements; Face processing; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRIEF FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT PROBE TASK; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PASSIVE VIEWING TASK; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL INTERACTION ANXIETY SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

EID: 84875239126     PISSN: 20367457     EISSN: 20367465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/mi.2011.e5     Document Type: Article

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