Threat evokes a variety of negative emotions such as fear, anger, and disgust. Whereas they
elicit distinct and even opposite facial, sensory, and autonomic reflexes, threat-related …

Background While translational theories link neurodevelopmental changes in threat learning
to pathological anxiety, findings from studies in patients inconsistently support these …

Responding flexibly to sources of threat and safety is critical to the adaptive regulation of
emotions, including fear. At a neural systems level, such flexibility is thought to rely on an …

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

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

Neural habituation allows familiar information to be ignored in favor of salient or novel
stimuli. In contrast, failure to rapidly habituate likely reflects deficits in the ability to learn that …

Background Generalized social anxiety disorder (g SAD) is characterized by exaggerated
amygdala reactivity to social signals of threat, but if and how the amygdala interacts with …

Numerous studies have shown an exacerbation of attentional bias towards threat in anxiety
states. However, the cognitive mechanisms responsible for these attentional biases remain …

Fearful facial expressions are prioritized across different stages of information processing as
reflected by early, mid‐latency, and late components of event‐related brain potentials (ERP) …

Little is known about the network of brain regions activated prior to explicit awareness of
emotionally salient social stimuli. We investigated this in a functional magnetic resonance …