Investigating Social Cognitive Characteristics of Social Anxiety within the Bayesian Framework

Funded by General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (32471151)

• Investigating the role of prior expectations in atypical social cognition among individuals with high social anxiety traits.
• Delineating and constructing the prior model for emotion recognition in social interactions.
• Analyzing the formation of prior expectations among individuals with high social anxiety, and uncovering the underlying neural mechanisms.

A Mechanistic Investigation of Emotion Processing and Social Cognition in Social Anxiety Disorder Based on Biological Motion

Funded by Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32200854)

• Investigating the negative cognitive biases in emotion recognition of biological motion and facial expressions among individuals with social anxiety.
• Examining the interplay of top-down and bottom-up processes in atypical social cognition and refining existing theories.
• Developing clinical classification and prediction models for social anxiety.