Journal article
Individuals with social phobia are biased to become aware of negative faces
Abstract
To evaluate whether individuals with social phobia are biased to become aware of negative faces participants searched visual displays containing varying number of neutral face distractors for the location of positive and negative faces. Individuals with social phobia had shallower search slopes for locating negative compared to positive faces, suggesting that they are biased to become aware of negative faces more readily than they become aware …
Authors
Eastwood J; Smile D; Oakman J; Farvolden P; van Ameringen M; Mancini C; Merikle P
Journal
Visual Cognition, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 159–179
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
1 2005
DOI
10.1080/13506280444000175
ISSN
1350-6285