Neural correlates of implicit processing of facial emotions in shy adults

Although people who are shy are presumed to be very good at detecting social threat, avoid face-to-face interaction, and show deficits in social skills, we know relatively little about how they process emotion. We selected 24 adults for high (n=12) and low (n=12) shyness from among a larger sample of 152 undergraduates and examined their neural responses to faces conveying different emotional expressions. Participants were asked to make gender …