ArticleJournal of affective disorders2021
Increased attention allocation to socially threatening faces in social anxiety disorder: A replication study.
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- Aberrant neural correlates of multisensory processing of audiovisual social cues related to social anxiety: An electrophysiological study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Fast evidence accumulation in social anxiety disorder enhances decision making in a probabilistic reward task.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Article
- Neurophysiological predictors of gaze-contingent music reward therapy among adults with social anxiety disorder.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThreat-related attention bias has been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of social anxiety disorder (SAD), with attentional research increasingly using eye-tracking methodology to overcome the poor psychometric properties of response-time-based tasks and measures. Yet, extant eye-tracking research in social anxiety has mostly failed to report on psychometrics and attempts to replicate past results are rare. Therefore, we attempted to replicate a previously published eye-tracking study of gaze patterns in socially anxious and nonanxious participants as they viewed social threatening and neutral faces, while also exploring the psychometric properties of the attentional measures used.
methodsGaze was monitored as participants freely viewed 60 different matrices comprised of eight socially-threatening and eight neutral faces, presented for 6000 ms each. Gaze patterns directed at threat and neutral areas of interest (AOIs) were compared by group. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were also evaluated.
resultsRelative to healthy controls, socially anxious patients dwelled significantly longer on threat faces, replicating prior findings with the same task. Internal consistency of total dwell time on threat and neutral AOIs was high, and two-week test-retest reliability was acceptable. LIMITATIONS: Test-retest reliability was only examined for the control group, which had a small sample size.
conclusionIncreased dwell time on socially threatening stimuli is a reliable, stable, and generalizable measure of attentional bias in adults with social anxiety.
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