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Individuals with high trait-anxiety show biased cognitive processing, and aberrantly process social and emotional information in facial expression. A recent study indicated that anxious individuals had difficulty in detecting biological motion (BM) that has rich social information from noise elements, but performed better when the stimuli contained emotional valence. The same study showed that emotion did not facilitate explicit emotion discrimination in high anxiety group. However, the present study hypothesized that people with high trait-anxiety would be more sensitive to emotional information in the discrimination task, if more sophisticatedly controlled. Therefore, an emotion discrimination task using emotional BM and a control task which had only emotionally-neutral BMs were administered to high- and low-trait-anxiety groups. The results showed better discrimination accuracy in high-anxiety group in the emotion discrimination task while no difference in the control task. These results confirmed that trait-anxiety affects emotional processing in BM as well as in facial expression. Further consideration on related social functioning, limitations and future research were discussed.
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