ArticleiScience2021
Increased gaze cueing of attention during COVID-19 lockdown.
Article in iScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of social exclusion on following the gaze of others.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Social excluder's face reduces gaze-triggered attention orienting.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Foot cues can elicit covert orienting of attention.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Are eyes special? Gaze, but not pointing gestures, elicits a reversed congruency effect in a spatial Stroop task.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Linguistic identity as a modulator of gaze cueing of attention.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Tuning social modulations of gaze cueing via contextual factors.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Guilt-inducing interaction with others modulates subsequent attentional orienting via their gaze.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Face mask use as a categorical dimension in social perception.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Evolution of Psychological and Behavioral Consequences of Self-Isolation During Lockdown: A Longitudinal Study Across United Kingdom and Italy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Emotional Lockdown: How Social Distancing and Mask Wearing Influence Mood and Emotion Recognition in Adolescents and Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Affiliation with others is a basic human need. The lockdown implemented for counteracting the COVID-19 pandemic has determined an unprecedented situation of social deprivation, forcing individuals to dramatically reduce face-to-face interactions. This, in turn, has caused relevant consequences on psychological well-being. However, the impact of lockdown-related social isolation on basic cognitive processes is still largely unknown. Here, we focus on social attention and address gaze cueing, namely the ability to shift attention in response to the gaze of others. This is a hard-wired cognitive mechanism critically supporting the establishment of social interactions and pervasive relationships among individuals. Our results show a stronger gaze-cueing effect during, rather than after, the lockdown, whose magnitude was positively correlated with social isolation distress. These findings indicate that, in a condition of prolonged social deprivation, orienting of attention may be shaped by hypersensitivity to social cues, likely due to the strive to reconnect with others.
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