Information processing bias against emotional facial expressions in social anxiety

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ID19277133
AuthorsSO‐YEON KIM (Yonsei University), Kyung Ja Oh (Yonsei University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume52
Issue1
Pages23-32
Publication date2010-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJapanese Psychological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-5368 • E-ISSN: 1468-5884
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-5884.2009.00419.x
OpenAlexW1992624544
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited31

The present study examined whether information processing bias against emotional facial expressions is present among individuals with social anxiety. College students with high (high social anxiety group; n = 26) and low social anxiety (low social anxiety group; n = 26) performed three different types of working memory tasks: (a) ordering positive and negative facial expressions according to the intensity of emotion; (b) ordering pictures of faces according to age; and (c) ordering geometric shapes according to size. The high social anxiety group performed significantly more poorly than the low social anxiety group on the facial expression task, but not on the other two tasks with the nonemotional stimuli. These results suggest that high social anxiety interferes with processing of emotionally charged facial expressions

Anxiety · Attentional bias · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Facial expression · Psychiatry · Social anxiety · Social inhibition · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Communication · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology

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