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The aim of this study was to investigate the interpretation biases of the social anxiety group using facial expression emotional stimuli. SADS(Social Avoidance and Distress Scale) was administered to 636 college students, and the high social anxiety group(32 persons) and low social anxiety group(34 persons) were selected based on the scores of this scale. The social anxiety situation was manipulated to all participants in the experiment; then, the single facial expression stimulus and the multiple facial stimulus were presented to all participants, who were asked to rate between a 1∼5 points, depending on how positive or negative the attitude to the single facial expression stimulus and multiple stimulus. Three-way ANOVA was performed in order to comprehend the differences in the interpretation biases of the single and multiple stimuli between the high social anxiety group and the low social anxiety group. The results of this study were as follows: the high social anxiety group showed the negative interpretation biases in the negative and neutral emotion type of the multiple facial stimuli. However, no differences in the single stimulus type were observed between the high social anxiety group and the low social anxiety group. In particular, the high social anxiety group showed more negative interpretation biases when there were ambiguous neutral emotional stimuli of facial expression. This means that subjects in the high social anxiety group interpreted the negative facial expression stimulus and the neutral facial expression stimulus more negatively when many facial stimuli were presented, compared to the low social anxiety group. In general, these results imply that the high social anxiety group showed the characteristics of interpretation biases in processing the facial expression emotion stimulus. The implications and limitations of this study, along with suggestions for further research were discussed.
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