ArticlePloS one2021
Adults with higher social anxiety show avoidant gaze behaviour in a real-world social setting: A mobile eye tracking study.
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- Automated Inference of Social Anxiety From Behavior in Social Virtual Reality: Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Observational
- Personality traits prediction based on eye movements while reading manga.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Synchrony within, synchrony without: establishing the link between interpersonal behavioural and brain-to-brain synchrony during role-play.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Taking another look at intelligence and personality using an eye-tracking approach.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Social attention patterns of autistic and non-autistic adults when viewing real versus reel people.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Article
- AI for Psychometrics: Validating Machine Learning Models in Measuring Emotional Intelligence with Eye-Tracking Techniques.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Level of Attention to Motherese Speech as an Early Marker of Autism Spectrum Disorder.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Clear Aligners and Smart Eye Tracking Technology as a New Communication Strategy between Ethical and Legal Issues.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- No evidence that gaze anxiety predicts gaze avoidance behavior during face-to-face social interaction.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly-Chances, Challenges, and Clinical Implications of Avoidance Research in Psychosomatic Medicine.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Attentional biases are a core characteristic of social anxiety (SA). However, research has yielded conflicting findings and failed to investigate these biases in real, face-to-face social situations. Therefore, this study examined attentional biases in SA by measuring participants' eye gaze within a novel eye-tracking paradigm during a real-life social situation. Student participants (N = 30) took part in what they thought was a visual search study, when a confederate posing as another participant entered the room. Whilst all participants avoided looking at the confederate, those with higher SA fixated for a shorter duration during their first fixation on him, and executed fewer fixations and saccades overall as well as exhibiting a shorter scanpath. These findings are indicative of additional avoidance in the higher SA participants. In contrast to previous experimental work, we found no evidence of social hypervigilance or hyperscanning in high SA individuals. The results indicate that in unstructured social settings, avoidance rather than vigilance predominates, especially in those with higher SA.
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