Social anxiety, fear of negative evaluation and the detection of negative emotion in others

• Published in: Behaviour research and therapy Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 193 - 196
• Main Authors: Winton, Emma C., Clark, David M., Edelmann, Robert J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.02.1995; Elsevier Science; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Anxiety - diagnosis; Anxiety - psychology; Anxiety disorders. Neuroses; Biological and medical sciences; Cues; Emotions; Facial Expression; Fear; Female; Humans; Internal-External Control; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Medical sciences; Phobia; Phobic Disorders - diagnosis; Phobic Disorders - psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Social Perception; Social psychology; Social research; Human; Affect affectivity; Fear; Symptomatology; Social perception; Social phobia; Anxiety disorder; Adult; Emotion emotionality; Social cognition

The present study sought to investigate whether social anxiety is associated with enhanced ability to detect negative emotion in others. Subjects scoring high and low on Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) performed two tasks before and after a social threat induction. The first task involved identify...