Time course of attentional bias in social anxiety: Evidence from visuocortical dynamics

Zheng, Junmeng; Cao, Feizhen; Chen, Yanling; Yu, Linwei; Yang, Y.B.; Katembu, Stephen; Xu, Qiang

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.01.002

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“…Finally, 216 people participated in this study. According to previous studies [ 31 ], participants scoring above 60 were identified as highly socially anxious (HSA, n = 108). Participants scoring below 35 were considered as having low social anxiety (LSA, n = 108).…”

Section: Experiments 1: Characteristics Of Face–body Overall Emotiona...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Attentional Bias of Individuals with Social Anxiety towards Facial and Somatic Emotional Cues in a Holistic Manner

Wang,

Liang,

Zhu

et al. 2024

Behavioral Sciences

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Attentional bias towards threatening information is a crucial factor contributing to the development and persistence of social anxiety. However, the attentional bias towards threat information and the preferential processing pattern of emotional cues in individuals with social anxiety disorder during integrated facial and physical stimuli processing remain unclear. In this study, we employed a dot-probe paradigm to investigate the attentional bias towards integrated emotions (facial–body) among students with high and low levels of social anxiety (Experiment 1). Experiments 2 and 3 examined the attentional bias of socially anxious individuals when faced with conflicting emotional cues from faces or bodies in relation to integrated emotions. The data revealed that participants both high and low levels of social anxiety participants exhibited accelerated orienting and biased attention towards facial–body emotional processing. When there was inconsistency between emotional cues from faces or bodies and integrated emotions, higher levels of social anxiety were associated with increased vigilance towards threatening faces or bodies. These findings underscore that individuals with social anxiety possess an ability to rapidly capture threatening cues during the processing of facial–body emotional stimuli while also demonstrating a tendency to avoid relying solely on facial cues by compensating through bodily cues for emotion perception.

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Section: Experiments 1: Characteristics Of Face–body Overall Emotiona...mentioning

confidence: 99%