Selective attention to angry faces in clinical social phobia.

By K. Mogg, Pierre Philippot, B. Bradley. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2004

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Reliability of two versions of the dot-probe task using photographic faces (2009, background): “One explanation for Schmukle’s (2005) negative results could be that the dot-probe task is not sensitive enough to reveal consistent responses within nonanxious groups. While this would ultimately entail that the task cannot be used to test individual differences in nonanxious participants, between-”
Preliminary Study of Attention Training to Threat and Neutral Faces on Anxious Reactivity to a Social Stressor in Social Anxiety (2010, result): “Evidence in support of this hypothesis are probe detection studies that show socially anxious individuals exhibit attentional bias to threat (Mogg and Bradley 2002; Mogg et al. 2004; Pishyar et al. 2004).”
Internet-Based Attention Training for Social Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2012, background): “Of these, at least four studies found that socially anxious individuals reacted faster to social threat than to neutral cues (Using words as stimuli: Asmundson and Stein 1994; Musa et al. 2003; Using faces as stimuli: Helfinstein et al. 2008; Mogg et al. 2004).”
Biased recognition of happy facial expressions in social anxiety. (2006, neutral): “Moreover, social anxiety affects vigilance for angry faces (Mogg & Bradley, 2002; Mogg et al., 2004).”