 Individuals who are high in social anxiety tend to show increased initial attention toward negative social cues such as threatening faces followed by attention away from these social cues, indicating a pattern of hypervigilance followed by avoidance.Attention in social anxiety has been measured using the dot-probe paradigm, which presents two faces next to one another.One face has an emotional expression and the other has a neutral expression, and when the faces disappear, a probe appears in the location of one of the faces.