Lateralisation for processing facial emotion and anxiety: Contrasting state, trait and social anxiety

▸ Use of chimeric faces test to examine lateralisation in anxiety. ▸ Contrasting state, trait and social anxiety. ▸ Contrasting right hemisphere and valence theories of emotion processing. ▸ High trait anxiety is associated with stronger right hemisphere lateralisation. ▸ High physiological arousal due to social anxiety is associated with bilaterality. ▸ Identified relationships are for males only.