Selective Attention to Angry Faces in Clinical Social Phobia.
Abstract
This study investigated the time course of attentional responses to emotional facial expressions in a clinical sample with social phobia. With a visual probe task, photographs of angry, happy, and neutral faces were presented at 2 exposure durations: 500 and 1250 ms. At 500 ms, the social phobia group showed enhanced vigilance for angry faces, relative to happy and neutral faces, in comparison with normal controls. In the 1250-ms condition, there were no significant attentional biases in the social phobia group. Results are consistent with a bias in initial orienting to threat cues in social anxiety. Findings are discussed in relation to recent cognitive models of anxiety disorders.
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GSAD patients exhibit attentional biases for threatening social information and exaggerated affective responses to aversive social cues.
“For example, laboratory studies have shown that GSAD patients exhibit attentional biases for threatening social information (Foa et al, 2000;Mogg et al, 2004), and exaggerated affective responses to aversive social cues (Hermann et al, 2002;Roelofs et al, 2009).”
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- Authors
- Mogg, K., Philippot, P., & Bradley, B. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 2004-02
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 160-165
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- OpenAlex
- W2108672095
- Cited by
- 582
- References
- 47
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- FWCI
- 29.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- social anxiety disorder, selective attention, angry faces, emotional facial expressions, attentional bias, threat vigilance, exposure duration, visual probe task, social anxiety
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anger, Attention, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Male, Phobic Disorders, Random Allocation, Reaction Time, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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