Blushing in early childhood: Feeling coy or socially anxious?

Emotion

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 475-487

  Nikolić, Milica ^a   Colonnesi, Cristina ^a   de Vente, Wieke ^a   Bögels, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Blushing; Cheek temperature; Shyness; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; AVERSION; BLOOD VOLUME; BLUSHING; CHEEK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GAZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCINFO; SINGING; SOCIOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

BLUSHING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIA, SOCIAL;

EID: 84949254678     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/emo0000131     Document Type: Article

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