All eyes on me?! Social anxiety and self-directed perception of eye gaze

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1305-1313

  Schulze, Lars ^a   Lobmaier, Janek S ^b   Arnold, Manuel ^a   Renneberg, Babette ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Emotion; Gaze; Perception; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84885046317     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.773881     Document Type: Article

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