Publications by authors named "Isabella G Spaulding"
Article Synopsis
- Fear of positive evaluation (FPE) is a major part of social anxiety disorder (SAD), but how it affects people’s social interactions is not well understood.
- The study looked at how FPE relates to behaviors and feelings when people interact with someone they don’t know, including different groups like those with SAD, depression, and healthy controls.
- Results showed that people with SAD experienced the highest levels of FPE, which made them more anxious and less likely to want to interact positively, highlighting FPE's importance in understanding social struggles in anxiety and depression.
Objective: Previous research has reported hyperresponsivity in the amygdala and hyporesponsivity in ventral portions of the medial prefrontal cortex to threat-related stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Whether such findings generalize to more ambiguous stimuli and whether such brain activation abnormalities reflect familial vulnerabilities, trauma-exposure, or acquired characteristics of PTSD remain unclear. In this study, we measured brain responses to emotionally ambiguous stimuli (i.
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