Orienting and maintenance of gaze to facial expressions in social anxiety
Orienting and maintenance of gaze to facial expressions in social anxiety
In 2 experiments, the authors tested predictions from cognitive models of social anxiety regarding attentional biases for social and nonsocial cues by monitoring eye movements to pictures of faces and objects in high social anxiety (HSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) individuals. Under no-stress conditions (Experiment 1), HSA individuals initially directed their gaze toward neutral faces, relative to objects, more often than did LSA participants. However, under social-evaluative stress (Experiment 2), HSA individuals showed reduced biases in initial orienting and maintenance of gaze on faces (cf. objects) compared with the LSA group. HSA individuals were also relatively quicker to look at emotional faces than neutral faces but looked at emotional faces for less time, compared with LSA individuals, consistent with a vigilant-avoidant pattern of bias.
attentional bias, gaze, eye movements, faces, social anxiety
760-770
Garner, Matthew
3221c5b3-b951-4fec-b456-ec449e4ce072
Mogg, Karin
5f1474af-85f5-4fd3-8eb6-0371be848e30
Bradley, Brendan P.
bdacaa6c-528b-4086-9448-27ebfe463514
November 2006
Garner, Matthew
3221c5b3-b951-4fec-b456-ec449e4ce072
Mogg, Karin
5f1474af-85f5-4fd3-8eb6-0371be848e30
Bradley, Brendan P.
bdacaa6c-528b-4086-9448-27ebfe463514
Garner, Matthew, Mogg, Karin and Bradley, Brendan P.
(2006)
Orienting and maintenance of gaze to facial expressions in social anxiety.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115 (4), .
(doi:10.1037/0021-843X.115.4.760).
Abstract
In 2 experiments, the authors tested predictions from cognitive models of social anxiety regarding attentional biases for social and nonsocial cues by monitoring eye movements to pictures of faces and objects in high social anxiety (HSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) individuals. Under no-stress conditions (Experiment 1), HSA individuals initially directed their gaze toward neutral faces, relative to objects, more often than did LSA participants. However, under social-evaluative stress (Experiment 2), HSA individuals showed reduced biases in initial orienting and maintenance of gaze on faces (cf. objects) compared with the LSA group. HSA individuals were also relatively quicker to look at emotional faces than neutral faces but looked at emotional faces for less time, compared with LSA individuals, consistent with a vigilant-avoidant pattern of bias.
Text
3912393.pdf
- Version of Record
Restricted to Repository staff only
Request a copy
More information
Published date: November 2006
Keywords:
attentional bias, gaze, eye movements, faces, social anxiety
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 18484
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/18484
PURE UUID: 3880f67b-5892-47e1-934d-949caea8d85b
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 14 Dec 2005
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:24
Export record
Altmetrics
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics
