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September 10, 2025BMC PsychiatryOpen Access

Electrophysiological evidence of processing social threat words in social anxiety participants

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YJYang Jin-weiFSFeng SiJCJianqin Cao

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Analysis reveals enhanced P2 and EPN responses to threat words in socially anxious participants, suggesting distinct processing mechanisms.

Key Points

  • Participants with high social anxiety showed slower reaction times to threat words compared to neutral words.
  • Enhanced P2 amplitudes suggest heightened attentional sensitivity to socially threatening information across both groups.
  • The HSA group demonstrated more negative EPN amplitudes, indicating intensified early attentional allocation toward threat words.
  • Findings imply that attentional biases in social anxiety primarily occur during early perceptual encoding stages.

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Jin-wei et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1d23054b1d3bfb60f7ae7https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-025-07257-6
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