Attention allocation and social worries predict interpretations of peer-related social cues in adolescents

Adolescence is a sensitive period for increases in normative but also debilitating social fears and worries. As the interpretation of interpersonal cues is pertinent to social anxiety, investigating mechanisms that may underlie biases in social cue appraisal is important.Fifty-one adolescents from t...

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Main Authors: Simone P.W. Haller, Brianna R. Doherty, Mihaela Duta, Kathrin Cohen Kadosh, Jennifer Y.F. Lau, Gaia Scerif
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-06-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929316301116