Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study
Authors: Konovalova, I., Antolin, J.V., Bolderston, H. and Gregory, N.J.
Journal: PLoS ONE
Volume: 16
Issue: 10 October
eISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259007
Abstract:Attentional biases are a core characteristic of social anxiety (SA). However, research has yielded conflicting findings and failed to investigate these biases in real, face-to-face social situations. Therefore, this study examined attentional biases in SA by measuring participants’ eye gaze within a novel eye-tracking paradigm during a real-life social situation. Student participants (N = 30) took part in what they thought was a visual search study, when a confederate posing as another participant entered the room. Whilst all participants avoided looking at the confederate, those with higher SA fixated for a shorter duration during their first fixation on him, and executed fewer fixations and saccades overall as well as exhibiting a shorter scanpath. These findings are indicative of additional avoidance in the higher SA participants. In contrast to previous experimental work, we found no evidence of social hypervigilance or hyperscanning in high SA individuals. The results indicate that in unstructured social settings, avoidance rather than vigilance predominates, especially in those with higher SA.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36184/
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Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
Authors: Konovalova, I., Antolin, J.V., Bolderston, H. and Gregory, N.J.
Journal: PLoS One
Volume: 16
Issue: 10
Pages: e0259007
eISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259007
Abstract:Attentional biases are a core characteristic of social anxiety (SA). However, research has yielded conflicting findings and failed to investigate these biases in real, face-to-face social situations. Therefore, this study examined attentional biases in SA by measuring participants' eye gaze within a novel eye-tracking paradigm during a real-life social situation. Student participants (N = 30) took part in what they thought was a visual search study, when a confederate posing as another participant entered the room. Whilst all participants avoided looking at the confederate, those with higher SA fixated for a shorter duration during their first fixation on him, and executed fewer fixations and saccades overall as well as exhibiting a shorter scanpath. These findings are indicative of additional avoidance in the higher SA participants. In contrast to previous experimental work, we found no evidence of social hypervigilance or hyperscanning in high SA individuals. The results indicate that in unstructured social settings, avoidance rather than vigilance predominates, especially in those with higher SA.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36184/
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Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study
Authors: Konovalova, I., Antolin, J.V., Bolderston, H. and Gregory, N.J.
Journal: PLOS ONE
Volume: 16
Issue: 10
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259007
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36184/
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Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
Authors: Konovalova, I., Antolin, J.V., Bolderston, H. and Gregory, N.J.
Journal: PloS one
Volume: 16
Issue: 10
Pages: e0259007
eISSN: 1932-6203
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259007
Abstract:Attentional biases are a core characteristic of social anxiety (SA). However, research has yielded conflicting findings and failed to investigate these biases in real, face-to-face social situations. Therefore, this study examined attentional biases in SA by measuring participants' eye gaze within a novel eye-tracking paradigm during a real-life social situation. Student participants (N = 30) took part in what they thought was a visual search study, when a confederate posing as another participant entered the room. Whilst all participants avoided looking at the confederate, those with higher SA fixated for a shorter duration during their first fixation on him, and executed fewer fixations and saccades overall as well as exhibiting a shorter scanpath. These findings are indicative of additional avoidance in the higher SA participants. In contrast to previous experimental work, we found no evidence of social hypervigilance or hyperscanning in high SA individuals. The results indicate that in unstructured social settings, avoidance rather than vigilance predominates, especially in those with higher SA.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36184/
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Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
Authors: Konovalova, I., Antolin, J.V., Bolderston, H. and Gregory, N.J.
Journal: PLoS One
Volume: 16
Issue: 10
ISSN: 1932-6203
Abstract:Attentional biases are a core characteristic of social anxiety (SA). However, research has yielded conflicting findings and failed to investigate these biases in real, face-to-face social situations. Therefore, this study examined attentional biases in SA by measuring participants' eye gaze within a novel eye-tracking paradigm during a real-life social situation. Student participants (N = 30) took part in what they thought was a visual search study, when a confederate posing as another participant entered the room. Whilst all participants avoided looking at the confederate, those with higher SA fixated for a shorter duration during their first fixation on him, and executed fewer fixations and saccades overall as well as exhibiting a shorter scanpath. These findings are indicative of additional avoidance in the higher SA participants. In contrast to previous experimental work, we found no evidence of social hypervigilance or hyperscanning in high SA individuals. The results indicate that in unstructured social settings, avoidance rather than vigilance predominates, especially in those with higher SA.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36184/
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