Asghar, Aziz U. R., Chieh Chiu, Yi, Paul Hallam, Glyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8956-9054, Liu, Siwei, Mole, Hannah, Wright, Hayley and Young, Andrew W. (2016) An amygdala response to fearful faces with covered eyes. In: Facial Expression Recognition. Psychology Press, pp. 218-231

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Abstract

Social phobia is a chronic, debilitating disorder, affecting 7 to 13 percentage of individuals, and is characterised by intense fear of scrutiny and negative evaluation by others. Little is known about its aetiology. Disturbances in social information processing, particularly of faces and emotional expressions, have been implicated in the maintenance of social phobia in both adults and children; yet, whether they are of aetiological significance is unknown. Studies of processing of faces and emotional expressions among individuals with social phobia can be considered in three categories of response to: face versus non-face stimuli; direct versus averted gaze; and emotional expressions. The extent to which the characteristic information-processing biases evident in adults and children with social phobia are implicated in the development of the disorder, or are a consequence of social anxiety, is unclear. Even young infants have specialised responses to the face.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
School/Department:	School of Education, Language and Psychology
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/10979

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