Interpretive bias in social phobia: An ERP study with morphed emotional schematic faces

IT Kolassa, S Kolassa, S Bergmann… - Cognition and …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Individuals with social phobia fear negative evaluation, which is most directly signalled by
an angry expression of the interlocutor's face. This study investigated the processing of 3 …

Event-related potentials to schematic faces in social phobia

IT Kolassa, S Kolassa, F Musial… - Cognition and …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Social phobia has been associated with an attentional bias for angry faces. This study aimed
at further characterising this attentional bias by investigating reaction times, heart rates, and …

Impaired identification of fearful faces in Generalised Social Phobia

M Garner, DS Baldwin, BP Bradley, K Mogg - Journal of Affective Disorders, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Cognitive models and interventions for anxiety assume that socially
anxious individuals interpret ambiguous social information in a threatening manner …

Attentional biases for facial expressions in social phobia: The face-in-the-crowd paradigm

E Gilboa-Schechtman, EB Foa, N Amir - Cognition & Emotion, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
The present study examines the attentional bias hypothesis for individuals with generalised
social phobia (GSPs). Socially phobic individuals were hypothesised to exhibit attentional …

Fear of negative evaluation and attentional bias for facial expressions: An event-related study

M Rossignol, S Campanella, C Bissot, P Philippot - Brain and Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have shown an exacerbation of attentional bias towards threat in anxiety
states. However, the cognitive mechanisms responsible for these attentional biases remain …

Psychophysiological correlates of face processing in social phobia

IT Kolassa, WHR Miltner - Brain research, 2006 - Elsevier
Social phobia has been associated with abnormal processing of angry faces, which directly
signal disapproval—a situation that social phobics fear. This study investigated the …

The misclassification of facial expressions in generalised social phobia

C Bell, C Bourke, H Colhoun, F Carter… - Journal of anxiety …, 2011 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to investigate facial expression recognition (FER) accuracy in
social phobia and in particular to explore how facial expressions of emotion were …

Categorical perception of anger and disgust facial expression is affected by non-clinical social anxiety: an ERP study

M Rossignol, C Anselme, N Vermeulen, P Philippot… - Brain research, 2007 - Elsevier
Anxiety has been associated with a bias for interpreting threatening information. Faces
expressing anger seem to be more easily detected by socially anxious individuals than by …

Interpretation of facial expressions and social anxiety: Specificity and source of biases

ME Coles, RG Heimberg, CA Schofield - Cognition and Emotion, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Cognitive-behavioural models of social phobia (Clark & Wells, 1995; Rapee & Heimberg,
1997) propose that biased information processing contributes to the maintenance of social …

Social phobics do not see eye to eye:: A visual scanpath study of emotional expression processing

K Horley, LM Williams, C Gonsalvez… - Journal of anxiety disorders, 2003 - Elsevier
Clinical observation suggests that social phobia is characterised by eye avoidance in social
interaction, reflecting an exaggerated social sensitivity. These reports are consistent with …