Category: social anxiety info
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EYE CONTACT AS BODY LANGUAGE
Eye contact serves a social function, which includes creating intimacy and showing social competence. In social anxiety, however, it is a source of anxiety leading the individual to avert direct gaze What is less known is that eye contact is typically averted in situations where there is a high cognitive load (i.e., cognition refers to…
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IS A CHILD’S SILENCE DURING SOCIAL SITUATIONS A SIGN OF SOCIAL ANXIETY?
Selective mutism (SM) refers to the child’s and/or adolescents’ persistent inability to speak in certain social situations, even though they are perfectly able to speak and understand language. SM has been linked to an extreme form of social anxiety, and thus it is proposed that anxiety could be a contributing factor in the etiology (i.e.,…
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DOES OXYTOCIN IMPROVE SYMPTOMS OF SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER?
Oxytocin, the love hormone, can help reduce fear-related symptoms in generalized social anxiety disorder.
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IS SOCIAL ANXIETY CONTAGIOUS?
Individuals with social anxiety can transfer their anxiety and negative thoughts onto the person with whom they are interacting.
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BREAKING DOWN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS
When broken down, social skills comprise various elements which, when combined to various degrees, lead to effective social performance without social anxiety.