Gaze perception in social anxiety and social anxiety disorder

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

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

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Cone of gaze; Emotion; Eye gaze; Eye tracking; Mutual gaze; Social anxiety; Social anxiety disorder

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTION; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GAZE; HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VISION;

EID: 84890810621     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00872     Document Type: Review

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