Is eye to eye contact really threatening and avoided in social anxiety?--An eye-tracking and psychophysiology study.

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Published in J Anxiety Disord on May 02, 2008

Authors

Matthias J Wieser1, Paul Pauli, Georg W Alpers, Andreas Mühlberger

Author Affiliations

1: University of Würzburg, Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Germany. weiser@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de

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