Avoidance is a key characteristic of adaptive and maladaptive fear. Here, we review past
and contemporary theories of avoidance learning. Based on the theories, experimental …

Background In recent years, a growing body of eye-tracking research has investigated gaze
behavior in individuals with social anxiety during the visual perception of emotional stimuli …

Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications demonstrates how
knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect successful communication in the real world …

Social anxiety is a form of anxiety characterized by continuous fear of one or more social or
performance situations. Although multiple treatment modalities (cognitive behavioral …

Eye contact is a central component in face-to-face interactions. It is important in structuring
communicative exchanges and offers critical insights into others' interests and intentions. To …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by over-reactivity of fear-related circuits in
social or performance situations and associated with marked social impairment. We used …

Background We critically reexamine extant theory and empirical study of Oxytocin. We
question whether OT is, in fact, a “social neuropeptide” as argued in dominant theories of …

Primates explore the visual world through eye-movement sequences. Saccades bring
details of interest into the fovea, while fixations stabilize the image [1]. During natural vision …

The present study investigated the effect of stimulus duration on skin conductance
responses (SCRs) evoked by different gaze directions of a live person. In two separate parts …

Clinical observations suggest abnormal gaze perception to be an important indicator of
social anxiety disorder (SAD). Experimental research has yet paid relatively little attention to …