Social anxiety and attention away from emotional faces
Social anxiety and attention away from emotional faces
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DOI：
10.1080/026999399379032
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发表时间：
1999-11-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Chen, YP
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文献类型：
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作者：
Mansell, W;Clark, DM;Chen, YP
大量文献表明，焦虑通常与对威胁线索的选择性关注有关。社交焦虑者过度担心他人的负面评价。因此，人们可能会预测，高度的社交焦虑与对负面面部表情的选择性关注有关。另一方面，最近的一些模型表明，社交焦虑可能与外部社交线索处理的减少有关。使用修改后的点探测任务来研究面部注意力。在社会评价威胁或无威胁的条件下，向高社交焦虑和低社交焦虑的个体展示两张图片，其中包括一张脸（积极、中性或消极）和一件家居物品。结果表明，与低社交焦虑个体相比，高社交焦虑个体表现出远离情绪（积极和消极）面孔的注意力偏差，但这种效应仅在社会评价威胁的条件下观察到。讨论了结果的理论和临床意义。
A substantial literature indicates that anxiety is often associated with selective attention to threat cues. Socially anxious individuals are excessively concerned about negative evaluation by others. One might therefore predict that high social anxiety would be associated with selective attention to negative facial expressions. On the other hand, some recent models have suggested that social anxiety may be associated with reduced processing of external social cues. A modified dot-probe task was used to investigate face attention. High and low socially anxious individuals were presented with pairs of pictures, consisting of a face (positive, neutral, or negative) and a household object, under conditions of social-evaluative threat or no threat. The results indicated that, compared to low socially anxious individuals, high socially anxious individuals show an attentional bias away from emotional (positive and negative) faces but this effect is only observed under conditions of social-evaluative threat. Theoretical and clinical implications of the results are discussed.