A research project recently published in the journal Clinical Psychological Scienceattempts to ascertain the relationship between social anxiety, social anxiety disorder, social exclusion, and empathic accuracy. The first study compared 136 participants, half sub-clinical socially anxious individuals with matched “non-anxious” counterparts. The second study compared 126 participants, half with Social Anxiety Disorder diagnoses, and matched “non-anxious” counterparts. The goal was to tease out whether individuals with social anxiety, at both sub-clinical and clinical levels, have greater empathic accuracy than matched participants.

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