Child maltreatment has many well-documented lasting effects on children. Among its
consequences, it affects children's recognition of emotions. More and more studies are …

Making effective decisions during approach-avoidance conflict is critical in daily life.
Aberrant decision-making during approach-avoidance conflict is evident in a range of …

Abstract The COVID Stress Scales (CSS) were designed to assess stress related to the
COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging evidence indicates that people with anxiety disorders (ADs) …

Visual search paradigms have provided evidence for the enhanced capture of attention by
threatening faces. Especially in social anxiety, hypervigilance for threatening faces has been …

The current study investigated factors thought to contribute to facial emotion processing.
Female university students (N= 126) completed self-report measures of childhood emotional …

Accuracy in facial emotion recognition has shown to vary with ovarian hormones, both in
naturally cycling women, as well as in women taking oral contraceptives. It remains …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) runs in families, but the neurobiological pathways underlying
the genetic susceptibility towards SAD are largely unknown. Here, we employed an …

As individuals navigate the world, they are bound to have emotionally intense experiences.
These events not only influence momentary physiological and affective responses, but may …

Daily life demands that we differentiate between a multitude of emotional facial expressions
(EFEs). The mirror neuron system (MNS) is becoming increasingly implicated as a neural …

Human beings have a fundamental need to belong. Evaluating and dealing with social
exclusion and social inclusion events, which represent negative and positive social …