Chunk #9 — Methods — Study 1: Non-socially anxious participants — Stimulus detection

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Intensified neuronal investment in the processing of chemosensory anxiety signals in non-socially anxious and socially anxious individuals.

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To determine participants' detection performance of the chemosensory anxiety signal (anxiety sweat) and the chemosensory control stimulus (sport sweat), participants had to select the most intense stimulus from a series of three stimuli, with the remaining two blank odors consisting of pure cotton pad. This procedure was carried out twice. Participants who failed once to detect the chemosensory signal (the anxiety or the sport signal) were defined as non-detectors.