Background: Interpretation bias, which involves interpreting ambiguous social events
negatively and catastrophising even mildly negative social events, has been suggested as a …

Background Recognition of others' emotions is an important aspect of interpersonal
communication. In major depression, a significant emotion recognition impairment has been …

Social cognition deficits are observed in a variety of psychiatric illnesses. However, data
concerning anxiety disorders are sparse and difficult to interpret. This meta-analysis aims at …

Mentalization, the high-order function of detecting and interpreting one's own and others'
mental states, has gained interest in the fields of clinical and developmental …

It has been proposed that social anxiety is associated with poor emotion knowledge (EK),
although studies have revealed mixed results. The aim of the present paper was to …

Previous research has been concerned with the relationship between social anxiety and the
recognition of face expression but the question of whether there is a relationship between …

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 …

High trait anxiety has been associated with detriments in emotional face processing. By
contrast, relatively little is known about the effects of state anxiety on emotional face …

Group functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies suggest that anxiety disorders
are associated with anomalous brain activation and functional connectivity (FC). However …

Social anxiety (SA) has as its main feature the fear of social situations, being characterized
as social phobia or social anxiety disorder when functional impairment emerges as a result …