Hyperscanning and avoidance in social anxiety disorder: The visual scanpath during public speaking
Hyperscanning and avoidance in social anxiety disorder: The visual scanpath during public speaking
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DOI：
10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.025
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发表时间：
2015-02-01
影响因子：
11.3
通讯作者：
Guastella, Adam John
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作者：
Chen, Nigel Teik Ming;Thomas, Laurenn Maree;Guastella, Adam John
社交焦虑障碍（SAD）是一种使人衰弱的精神疾病，被认为部分是由于对社会相关信息的异常注意处理而维持的。然而，至关重要的是，研究还没有评估这种异常的注意力处理是否发生在社会评价背景下，典型的恐惧在SAD。目前的研究提出了一种新的方法来评估视觉认知偏差在社会评价压力源的SAD。对于这项任务，临床社交焦虑的参与者和控制，需要给一个简短的即兴演讲在预先录制的观众面前间歇性地显示社会积极或威胁的姿态。参与者在整个演讲过程中对观众显示屏的注视被记录下来。相对于对照组，社交焦虑的参与者表现出明显更长的视觉扫描路径。此外，社交焦虑的参与者花了相对较长的时间固定在非社会区域之间和周围的联盟。本研究的结果表明，SAD与超扫描和注意回避的社会刺激。(C)2014爱思唯尔爱尔兰有限公司版权所有。
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a debilitating mental illness which is thought to be maintained in part by the aberrant attentional processing of socially relevant information. Critically however, research has not assessed whether such aberrant attentional processing occurs during social-evaluative contexts characteristically feared in SAD. The current study presents a novel approach for the assessment of the visuocognitive biases operating in SAD during a social-evaluative stressor. For this task, clinically socially anxious participants and controls were required to give a brief impromptu speech in front of a pre-recorded audience who intermittently displayed socially positive or threatening gestures. Participant gaze at the audience display was recorded throughout the speech. Socially anxious participants exhibited a significantly longer visual scanpath, relative to controls. In addition, socially anxious participants spent relatively longer time fixating at the non-social regions in between and around the confederates. The findings of the present study suggest that SAD is associated with hyperscanning and the attentional avoidance of social stimuli. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.