4.40 The Effect of Social Awareness on Anticipated Social Interactions in Anxious and Non-Anxious Youth: A Neuroimaging Study

Adolescence is a period of increased emphasis on peer relationships. Social awareness, the ability to detect social cues, is critical in forming and maintaining such relationships. Anxious youth have difficulty processing social cues, often interpreting social interactions as more negative than their healthy peers. These negative biases may lead to avoidance of and/or withdrawal from social interactions. As such, understanding how individual...