When gushing leads to blushing: Inflated praise leads socially anxious children to blush

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 106, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-7

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blushing; Late childhood; Praise; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; BLUSHING; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEEK TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRAISE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ANXIETY; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REWARD; SELF CONCEPT;

ANXIETY; BLUSHING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REWARD; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 85046151780     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2018.04.003     Document Type: Article

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