Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is often associated with fear of negative evaluation (FNE).
More recently, fear of positive evaluation (FPE) has increasingly been recognized as a fear …

Social anxiety is a common disorder characterized by a persistent and excessive fear of one
or more social or performance situations. Behavioral inhibition is one of the early indicators …

Gender differences in creativity have been widely studied in behavioral investigations, but
this topic has rarely been the focus of neuroscientific research. The current paper presents …

Cognitive models posit that the fear of negative evaluation (FNE) is a hallmark feature of
social anxiety. As such, individuals with high FNE may show biased information processing …

Patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) experience anxiety and avoidance in face-to-face
interactions. We performed a meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Socially anxious individuals tend to shift their attention away from external socially
threatening cues and instead become highly self-focused. Such heightened self-focused …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a disabling psychiatric disorder with a complex
pathogenesis. Studies indicate a genetic component in the development of SAD, but the …

The core feature of separation anxiety is excessive distress when faced with actual or
perceived separation from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional …

The aims of this fMRI study were two-fold. The first objective of the study was to verify
whether the findings associated with a previous fMRI study could be replicated in which a …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with aberrant self-referential processing (SRP)
such as increased self-focused attention. Aberrant SRP is one of the core features of SAD …