Context-Dependent Autonomic Responses in Social Anxiety During Cognitive-Emotional Stress (opens in new tab)

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with heightened physiological arousal during socially evaluative situations, yet it remains unclear whether similar autonomic responses emerge during non-evaluative cognitive-emotional stress. This study investigated wearable electrodermal activity (EDA) responses in socially anxious (SA) and non-socially anxious (NSA) individuals during an emotionally salient 2-back working memory task involving f...