7 The current study examined the specificity of patterns of responding to high and low intensity negative 8 emotional expressions to infants of mothers with social phobia, and their association with child outcomes 9 at two years of age. Infants of mothers with social phobia, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) or no 10 history of anxiety were shown pairs of angry and fearful emotional expressions at 10 weeks of age. 11 Symptoms of social withdrawal, anxiety and sleep problems were assessed at

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... years of age. Only 12 infants of mothers with social phobia showed a tendency to look away from high intensity fear faces; 13 however infants of mothers with both social phobia and GAD showed a bias towards high intensity angry 14 faces. Among the offspring of mothers with social phobia, anxiety symptoms at two years of age were 15 associated with a preference for high intensity fear faces in infancy. The reverse pattern was found 16 amongst the offspring of non-anxious mothers. These findings suggest a possible specific response to 17 emotional expressions among the children of mothers with social phobia. 18