Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.

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 wit...

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Autores principales:	Irma Konovalova, Jastine V Antolin, Helen Bolderston, Nicola J Gregory
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a017854e83254f739083242d0a7135c62021-12-02T20:13:33ZAdults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0259007https://doaj.org/article/a017854e83254f739083242d0a7135c62021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259007https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Attentional 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.Irma KonovalovaJastine V AntolinHelen BolderstonNicola J GregoryPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0259007 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Irma Konovalova Jastine V Antolin Helen Bolderston Nicola J Gregory Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
description	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.
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title	Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
title_short	Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
title_full	Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
title_fullStr	Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
title_full_unstemmed	Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
title_sort	adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: a mobile eye tracking study.
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Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.

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