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The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

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2018

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Perception Of Facial Expressions In Social Anxiety And Gaze Anxiety, Aaron Necaise Jan 2018

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 …