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    Aberrant Gaze Patterns in Social Anxiety Disorder: An Eye Movement Assessment during Public Speaking

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    Authors
    Chen, N.
    Clarke, Patrick
    MacLeod, C.
    Hicke, I.
    Guastella, A.
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Chen, N. and Clarke, P. and MacLeod, C. and Hicke, I. and Guastella, A. 2016. Aberrant Gaze Patterns in Social Anxiety Disorder: An Eye Movement Assessment during Public Speaking. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. 7 (1): pp. 1-17.
    Source Title
    Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
    DOI
    10.5127/jep.040313
    ISSN
    2043-8087
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42180
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Social anxiety disorder is maintained by biased attentional processing, which may encompass biases in the component engagement, disengagement, and avoidance attentional processes. However, few studies have directly examined whether such biases occur during social-evaluative conditions characteristically feared in social anxiety. The current study presents a novel approach for the assessment of attentional bias. Clinically socially anxious (n = 27) and control (n = 29) participants were required to give a speech in front of a pre-recorded audience displaying emotional social gestures while eye movement was recorded. Socially anxious individuals avoided attending to positive and threatening stimuli. At the onset of an emotional gesture, control participants were additionally faster to orient towards positive, relative to threatening gestures, while this bias was absent in socially anxious participants. The findings suggest that during conditions of social-evaluative stress, social anxiety is characterized by the attentional avoidance of emotional stimuli, and the absence of an engagement bias favouring positive stimuli.

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