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

We present a detailed framework for understanding the numerous and complicated
interactions among psychological and social determinants of pain through examination of …

A threatening facial expression is a potent social sign of hostility or dominance. During the
past 20years, photographs of threatening faces have been increasingly included as stimuli …

Theoretical models of social phobia propose that biased attention contributes to the
maintenance of symptoms; however these theoretical models make opposing predictions …

Disgust has been theorized to be a basic emotion with a facial signal that is easily,
universally, automatically, and perhaps innately recognized by observers from an early age …

Recently, researchers have investigated the causal nature of attentional bias for threat (AB)
in the maintenance of anxiety disorders by experimentally manipulating it. They found that …

A person's impression of another depends upon three sources of variance. The
characteristics of the target, the characteristics of the perceiver, and the interplay between …

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 …

The current study investigated detection and interpretation of emotional facial expressions in
high socially anxious (HSA) individuals compared to non-anxious controls (NAC). A version …

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 …