A large body of research has demonstrated that affective disorders are characterized by
attentional biases for emotional stimuli. However, this research relies heavily on manual …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common and impairing psychological
disorders. To advance our understanding of SAD, several researchers have put forth …

When distinguishing whether a face displays a certain emotion, some regions of the face
may contain more useful information than others. Here we ask whether people differentially …

Patients with generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD) exhibit heightened activation of the
amygdala in response to social cues conveying threat (eg, fearful/angry faces). The …

An atypical pattern of eye contact behaviour is one of the most significant symptoms of
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Recent empirical advances have revealed the …

The neuropeptide oxytocin enhances the processing of positive social stimuli and improves
the capacity to effectively attend the eye region of conspecifics. To investigate the neural …

In general, individuals look where they attend and next intend to act. Many animals,
including our own species, use observed gaze as a deictic (“pointing”) cue to guide …

Cognitive–behavioral models propose that fear of negative evaluation is the core feature of
social anxiety disorder. However, it may be that fear of evaluation in general is important in …

The Approach–Avoidance Task (AAT) was employed to indirectly investigate avoidance
reactions to stimuli of potential social threat. Forty-three highly socially anxious individuals …

Theoretical frameworks of anxiety propose that attentional biases to threat-related stimuli
cause or maintain anxious states. The current paper draws on theoretical frameworks and …