Social anxiety modulates visual exploration in real life - but not in the laboratory.
attention
cognitive ethology
eye tracking
gaze avoidance
social anxiety
social phobia
Journal
British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)
ISSN: 2044-8295
Titre abrégé: Br J Psychol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0373124
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2020
May 2020
Historique:
received:
08
08
2018
revised:
22
02
2019
pubmed:
5
4
2019
medline:
7
10
2020
entrez:
5
4
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In clinical reports, individuals high on social anxiety are often described to avoid gaze at other people, whereas several experimental studies employing images of persons yielded conflicting results. Here, we show that gaze avoidance crucially depends on the possibility of social interactions. We examined gaze behaviour in individuals with varying degrees of social anxiety in real-life and in a second group of participants using a closely matched laboratory condition. In the real-life situation, individuals with a higher degree of social anxiety had a reduced bias to look at near persons compared to individuals with a lower degree of social anxiety, while gaze behaviour in the laboratory group was not modulated by social anxiety. This effect was specific to social attention since there was no corresponding effect regarding fixations on objects. The presence of anxiety effects in real-life but not in the laboratory condition, where participants do not expect to be evaluated by gazed-at conspecifics, points to critical deficits of current laboratory research paradigms in eliciting authentic social attentional mechanisms, possibly leading to spurious results.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30945279
doi: 10.1111/bjop.12396
pmc: PMC7187184
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
233-245Subventions
Organisme : European Research Council
ID : ERC-2013-StG #336305
Pays : International
Organisme : German Research Foundation
Informations de copyright
© 2019 The Authors. British Journal of Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society.
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