Eyes tell all: Dissecting attentional bias in social anxiety through emotional faces.

IF 2.5 3区 医学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Physiology & Behavior Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-05 DOI:10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115045
Yifan Zhao, Chengshi Li, Yibo Jiang, Hongge Jia
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Abstract

The present study employed eye-tracking technology and a free-viewing paradigm to explore the mechanisms of attentional bias toward emotional faces in individuals with social anxiety, using real and cartoon faces (angry, happy, disgusted, neutral) as stimuli. In Experiment 1, socially anxious individuals demonstrated significantly reduced total fixation duration and count on the eye regions of all four emotional face types presented by real people compared to controls. They also showed shorter fixation durations and fewer fixations on the facial area associated with disgust for real faces. In Experiment 2, both groups had longer total fixation duration and higher fixation counts on happy and neutral faces than on angry and disgusted faces. The findings suggest that attentional avoidance in socially anxious individuals is pronounced for the eye regions of real emotional faces, including positive ones, but not for cartoon faces. This indicates that attentional bias in social anxiety is influenced by both emotional and non-emotional social information in faces.

眼睛告诉一切:通过情绪面孔剖析社交焦虑中的注意偏见。
本研究采用眼动追踪技术和自由观看范式,以真实面孔和卡通面孔(愤怒、快乐、厌恶、中性)作为刺激,探讨社交焦虑个体对情绪面孔的注意偏向机制。在实验1中,与对照组相比,社交焦虑个体对真人呈现的所有四种情绪面部类型的总注视时间和眼睛区域的计数显著减少。他们还表现出更短的注视持续时间和更少的注视与厌恶真实面孔相关的面部区域。在实验2中,两组人对快乐和中性面孔的总注视时间和注视次数都比对愤怒和厌恶面孔的注视时间长。研究结果表明,社交焦虑者的注意力回避在真实的情绪面孔(包括积极的面孔)的眼睛区域是明显的,但在卡通面孔上却没有。这表明社交焦虑的注意偏倚同时受到面孔中情绪和非情绪社会信息的影响。
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Physiology & Behavior
Physiology & Behavior 医学-行为科学
CiteScore
5.70
自引率
3.40%
发文量
274
审稿时长
47 days
期刊介绍: Physiology & Behavior is aimed at the causal physiological mechanisms of behavior and its modulation by environmental factors. The journal invites original reports in the broad area of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, in which at least one variable is physiological and the primary emphasis and theoretical context are behavioral. The range of subjects includes behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology, learning and memory, ingestion, social behavior, and studies related to the mechanisms of psychopathology. Contemporary reviews and theoretical articles are welcomed and the Editors invite such proposals from interested authors.
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