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BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY
Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 677-687Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(01)00086-9
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attention; social phobia; dot probe paradigm; facial expressions
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The experiment tested whether patients with social phobia direct their attention to or away front faces with a range of emotional expressions. A modified dot probe paradigm (J. Abnorm. Psychol. 95 (1986) 15) measured whether participants attended more to faces or to household objects. Twenty patients with social phobia were faster in identifying the probe when it occurred in the location of the household objects, regardless of whether the facial expressions were positive. neutral, or negative. In contrast, controls did not exhibit an attentional preference. The results are in line with recent theories of social phobia that emphasize the role of reduced processing of external social cues in maintaining social anxiety. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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