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Gaze avoidance in social phobia: objective measure and correlates
- Source :
- Behaviour Research and Therapy, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Elsevier, 2010, 48 (2), pp.147-51. ⟨10.1016/j.brat.2009.09.012⟩, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2010, 48 (2), pp.147-51. ⟨10.1016/j.brat.2009.09.012⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2010.
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Abstract
- International audience; Gaze aversion could be a central component of the physiopathology of social phobia. The emotions of the people interacting with a person with social phobia seem to model this gaze aversion. Our research consists of testing gaze aversion in subjects with social phobia compared to control subjects in different emotional faces of men and women using an eye tracker. Twenty-six subjects with DSM-IV social phobia were recruited. Twenty-four healthy subjects aged and sex-matched constituted the control group. We looked at the number of fixations and the dwell time in the eyes area on the pictures. The main findings of this research are: confirming a significantly lower amount of fixations and dwell time in patients with social phobia as a general mean and for the 6 basic emotions independently from gender; observing a significant correlation between the severity of the phobia and the degree of gaze avoidance. However, no difference in gaze avoidance according to subject/picture gender matching was observed. These findings confirm and extend some previous results, and suggest that eye avoidance is a robust marker of persons with social phobia, which could be used as a behavioral phenotype for brain imagery studies on this disorder.
- Subjects :
- Male
Time Factors
MESH: Facial Expression
Eye Movements
genetic structures
Emotions
MESH: Phobic Disorders
Eye contact
Developmental psychology
0302 clinical medicine
MESH: Eye Movements
Eye Movement Measurements
media_common
MESH: Aged
Sex Characteristics
MESH: Middle Aged
05 social sciences
Middle Aged
anxiety
Facial Expression
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
MESH: Photic Stimulation
Phobic Disorders
Anxiety
Female
[SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]
medicine.symptom
Psychology
MESH: Face
Anxiety disorder
MESH: Sex Characteristics
Adult
Psychometrics
Emotion classification
media_common.quotation_subject
emotion
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Fixation, Ocular
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
MESH: Psychometrics
Perception
mental disorders
medicine
Humans
visual scanpath
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
MESH: Eye Movement Measurements
Aged
MESH: Emotions
MESH: Fixation, Ocular
MESH: Humans
MESH: Time Factors
MESH: Adult
medicine.disease
Gaze
Social relation
MESH: Male
Face
Eye tracking
gaze aversion
MESH: Female
Photic Stimulation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
social phobia
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00057967
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Behaviour Research and Therapy, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Elsevier, 2010, 48 (2), pp.147-51. ⟨10.1016/j.brat.2009.09.012⟩, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2010, 48 (2), pp.147-51. ⟨10.1016/j.brat.2009.09.012⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....86bd127e896a44e581f301069ff8f263