Socially Anxious Tendencies Affect Impressions of Others' Positive and Negative Emotional Gazes.

ABSTRACT: Socially anxious tendencies have potential to become social anxiety disorder (SAD), which is characterized by fear of social situations associated with being evaluated or embarrassed by others. In particular, others' gazes induce social anxiety. People with SAD have a negative interpretation bias toward ambiguous emotions in others' faces; however, negative interpretation bias toward ambiguous emotions in others' gazes has not been fully investigated. We used an impression judgment task to examine negative interpretation bias toward others' gazes among people with socially anxious tendencies. We generated emotionally ambiguous gazes (positive, negative, and neutral) using a morphing technique with 10% steps (neutral, 10-100% negative, and 10-100% positive). Participants (all male) were ask

SUBMITTER: Tsuji Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221960 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature