Social Anxiety
Social anxiety involves the persistent fear of one or more social situations in which the person may be evaluated, criticized and rejected. Attention deployment processes have been implicated in the aetiology and maintenance of social anxiety, though the specific role of attention in this condition is not yet entirely clear and continues to be a topic of vigorous investigation. This project examines whether social stimuli and especially emotional faces produce attention bias effects among socially anxious individuals in comparison to non-social stimuli, and whether threatening faces produce greater attention bias effects compared to neutral faces, depending on the processing load of cognitive tasks executed in parallel.
Georgia Panayiotou
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Current Appointment: Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus. She directs the Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology Lab and she is a founding member of the Center for Applied Neuroscience. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in Cyprus. As of May 2016 she is the Chair of the Department of Psychology.
Nikos Konstantinou
Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
My research interests include attention, working memory, and perception.