About this Research Topic
We are pleased to introduce the collection Highlights in Psychology: Social Anxiety.
Social anxiety is a long-term and overwhelming fear of social situations. In particular, the fear stems from being judged and evaluated negatively by other people, leading to feelings of inadequacy, inferiority, self-consciousness, embarrassment, humiliation, and depression. Millions of people around the world live with the condition which impacts their everyday activities, self confidence, relationships and work or school life.
This Research Topic will highlight a selection of articles around social anxiety and showcase the broad diversity of research performed across the Psychology field, ranging from Personality and Social Psychology to Clinical Psychology to Cognition.
We welcome original research and state-of-the-art reviews as well as other article types addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Errors in cognition i.e. hypermentalizing
• Impact of the condition on relationships e.g. family, romantic, professional, friendship and self
• Comorbidity between social anxiety and subtypes (i.e., related to physique and appearance) and other mental health conditions such as depression and eating disorders.
• Social anxiety in children, adolescents, young people, learners, students
• Assessment and treatment of social anxiety
• Social anxiety and cultural dimensions (individualism, uncertainty avoidance, etc.)
• Gender and cultural differences in social anxiety
• Sociocultural influences in social anxiety
• Emotions and social anxiety
• Shame in social anxiety
• Neurobiology and psychophysiology of social anxiety
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of Frontiers in Psychology and within the scope of the section to which they are submitted. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Social anxiety is a long-term and overwhelming fear of social situations. In particular, the fear stems from being judged and evaluated negatively by other people, leading to feelings of inadequacy, inferiority, self-consciousness, embarrassment, humiliation, and depression. Millions of people around the world live with the condition which impacts their everyday activities, self confidence, relationships and work or school life.
This Research Topic will highlight a selection of articles around social anxiety and showcase the broad diversity of research performed across the Psychology field, ranging from Personality and Social Psychology to Clinical Psychology to Cognition.
We welcome original research and state-of-the-art reviews as well as other article types addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Errors in cognition i.e. hypermentalizing
• Impact of the condition on relationships e.g. family, romantic, professional, friendship and self
• Comorbidity between social anxiety and subtypes (i.e., related to physique and appearance) and other mental health conditions such as depression and eating disorders.
• Social anxiety in children, adolescents, young people, learners, students
• Assessment and treatment of social anxiety
• Social anxiety and cultural dimensions (individualism, uncertainty avoidance, etc.)
• Gender and cultural differences in social anxiety
• Sociocultural influences in social anxiety
• Emotions and social anxiety
• Shame in social anxiety
• Neurobiology and psychophysiology of social anxiety
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of Frontiers in Psychology and within the scope of the section to which they are submitted. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Keywords: Social anxiety, Cognition, Relationships, Mental health, Depression, Cultural differences, Emotions, Neurobiology
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
