Gaze-based assessments of vigilance and avoidance in social anxiety: A review

NTM Chen, PJF Clarke - Current psychiatry reports, 2017 - Springer
Purpose of Review A broad base of research has sought to identify the biases in selective
attention which characterize social anxiety, with the emergent use of eye tracking-based …

Social anxiety is characterized by biased learning about performance and the self.

L Koban, R Schneider, YK Ashar, JR Andrews-Hanna… - Emotion, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
People learn about their self from social information, and recent work suggests that healthy
adults show a positive bias for learning self-related information. In contrast, social anxiety …

[HTML][HTML] Impaired detection of happy facial expressions in autism

W Sato, R Sawada, S Uono, S Yoshimura… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The detection of emotional facial expressions plays an indispensable role in social
interaction. Psychological studies have shown that typically developing (TD) individuals …

Fear of negative evaluation, trait anxiety, and judgment bias in adults who stutter

SB Brundage, KL Winters, JM Beilby - American journal of speech-language …, 2017 - ASHA
Purpose Persons who stutter (PWS) and those with social anxiety disorder may exhibit fear
of negative evaluation (FNE) and anxiety in social situations. However, the information …

How well can we measure visual attention? Psychometric properties of manual response times and first fixation latencies in a visual search paradigm

R Wermes, TM Lincoln, S Helbig-Lang - Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2017 - Springer
Attentional biases are considered to be important for the development and maintenance of
anxiety disorders, but despite widespread research in this area, the psychometric properties …

A systematic review of the psychometric properties of trait cognitive self-report measures in social anxiety

JE Stein, M Modini, C Hunt, MJ Abbott - Journal of Psychopathology and …, 2017 - Springer
Cognitive factors, including beliefs, thoughts and assumptions have been found to play an
important role in the development and maintenance of Social Anxiety Disorder. Trait …

The effects of emotion priming on visual search in socially anxious adults

SA Haas, D Amso, NA Fox - Cognition and emotion, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the effects of emotion priming on visual search in participants
characterised for different levels of social anxiety. Participants were primed with five facial …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive behavioural therapy attenuates the enhanced early facial stimuli processing in social anxiety disorders: an ERP investigation

J Cao, Q Liu, Y Li, J Yang, R Gu, J Liang, Y Qi… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017 - Springer
Background Previous studies of patients with social anxiety have demonstrated abnormal
early processing of facial stimuli in social contexts. In other words, patients with social …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of affective state on exogenous attention to emotional distractors: behavioral and electrophysiological correlates

A Carboni, D Kessel, A Capilla, L Carretié - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The interplay between exogenous attention to emotional distractors and the baseline
affective state has not been well established yet. The present study aimed to explore this …

Prefrontal mediation of emotion regulation in social anxiety disorder during laughter perception

B Kreifelts, C Brück, T Ethofer, J Ritter, L Weigel, M Erb… - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by negatively biased perception of social
cues and deficits in emotion regulation. While negatively biased perception is thought to …