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Perception Of Facial Expressions In Social Anxiety And Gaze Anxiety, Aaron Necaise
Perception Of Facial Expressions In Social Anxiety And Gaze Anxiety, Aaron Necaise
The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal
This study explores the relationship between gaze anxiety and the perception of facial expressions. The literature suggests that individuals experiencing Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) might have a fear of making direct eye contact, and that these individuals also demonstrate a hypervigilance towards the eye region. Some have suggested that this increased anxiety concerning eye contact might be related to the tendency of socially anxious individuals to mislabel emotion in the faces of onlookers. An improved understanding of the cognitive biases associated with SAD could lead to more efficient intervention and assessment methods. In the present study, I used the Depression …
The Self-Reference Effect, Emotion, And Self-Esteem, Analise Mcgreal
The Self-Reference Effect, Emotion, And Self-Esteem, Analise Mcgreal
The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal
This study examines the effect of emotionally-charged stimuli on surprise recall rates of self-referentially processed words. In a between-subjects experimental design, 101 undergraduate students from the University of Central Florida (UCF) were randomly assigned to one of three groups (positive words, negative words, or neutral words) and presented with a list of seven adjectives describing appearance (e.g. cute, appalling, tall); experimental procedures were carried out through the UCF Qualtrics online survey design platform. After self-referential processing, a significant difference between all three groups was demonstrated by completion of a one-way ANOVA, with recall rates decreasing from the neutral, to the …