Repression designates coping strategies that aim to shield the organism from distressing
stimuli by disregarding their aversive characteristics. In contrast, sensitization comprises …

Repression designates coping strategies such as avoidance, or denial that aim to shield the
organism from threatening stimuli. Derakshan et al. have proposed the vigilance–avoidance …

Stimuli that signal threat show considerable variability in the extents to which they enhance
behavior, even among healthy individuals. However, the neural underpinning of this …

Environmental conditions bias our perception of other peoples' facial emotions. This
becomes quite relevant in potentially threatening situations, when a fellow's facial …

Cognitive evaluation of emotional stimuli involves a network of brain regions including the
medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). However, threatening stimuli may be perceived with …

BACKGROUND: The amygdala, hippocampus, ventral, and dorsal prefrontal cortices have
been demonstrated to be involved in the response to fearful facial expressions. Little is …

Responses to threat-related stimuli are influenced by conscious and unconscious
processes, but the neural systems underlying these processes and their relationship to …

A chronic tendency to avoid novelty is often the result of a temperamental bias called
inhibited temperament, and is associated with increased risk for anxiety disorders …

Recent behavioral and electrocortical studies have found that shy and socially anxious
adults are hypersensitive to the processing of negative and ambiguous facial emotions. We …

Human neuroimaging studies implicate the amygdala, medial prefrontal and somatosensory-
related cortices as key neural components in the perception of facial fear signals. Yet, their …