Understanding child development is crucial for early years practitioners and knowledge of
children and their development underpins effective practice. This book offers an overview …

To react appropriately in social relationships, we have a tendency to simulate how others
think of us through mental imagery. In particular, simulating other people's facial affective …

BACKGROUND: This study investigated activation of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and
amygdala during the presentation of happy facial affect images in patients with panic …

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 …

Introduction The ability to read facial expressions is essential for normal human social
interaction. The aim of the present study was to conduct the first investigation of facial …

Models of emotion processing have commonly been formulated as dichotomies such as
approach versus avoidance. These models and associated research on evolutionary …

The study of implicit attitudes by social psychologists has relied heavily on the behavioral
methods of social cognition, including response competition (Greenwald, McGhee, & …

The newly discovered deficit in a bilateral amygdala-damaged case, of not being able to
allocate attention to the critical feature of a face (Adolphs R, Gosselin F, Buchanan TW …

Background: Prior imaging studies suggest that patients with major depressive disorder
have abnormalities in frontal and limbic neural circuitry including the amygdala, which is …

The present study examined whether inhibition of return (IOR) is modulated by the fear
relevance of the cue. Experiment 1 found similar magnitude of IOR was produced by neutral …