Gaze-Based Assessments of Vigilance and Avoidance in Social Anxiety: a Review
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Purpose of Review: A broad base of research has sought to identify the biases in selective attention which characterize social anxiety, with the emergent use of eye tracking-based methods. This article seeks to provide a review of eye tracking studies ex...
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| description | © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Purpose of Review: A broad base of research has sought to identify the biases in selective attention which characterize social anxiety, with the emergent use of eye tracking-based methods. This article seeks to provide a review of eye tracking studies examining selective attention biases in social anxiety. Recent Findings: Across a number of contexts, social anxiety may be associated with a mix of both vigilant and avoidant patterns of attention with respect to the processing of emotional social stimuli. Socially anxious individuals may additionally avoid maintaining eye contact and may exhibit a generalized vigilance via hyperscanning of their environment. Summary: The findings highlight the utility of eye tracking methods for increasing understanding of the gaze-based biases which characterize social anxiety disorder, with promising avenues for future research. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-563352017-09-13T16:10:06Z Gaze-Based Assessments of Vigilance and Avoidance in Social Anxiety: a Review Chen, N. Clarke, Patrick © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Purpose of Review: A broad base of research has sought to identify the biases in selective attention which characterize social anxiety, with the emergent use of eye tracking-based methods. This article seeks to provide a review of eye tracking studies examining selective attention biases in social anxiety. Recent Findings: Across a number of contexts, social anxiety may be associated with a mix of both vigilant and avoidant patterns of attention with respect to the processing of emotional social stimuli. Socially anxious individuals may additionally avoid maintaining eye contact and may exhibit a generalized vigilance via hyperscanning of their environment. Summary: The findings highlight the utility of eye tracking methods for increasing understanding of the gaze-based biases which characterize social anxiety disorder, with promising avenues for future research. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56335 10.1007/s11920-017-0808-4 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Chen, N. Clarke, Patrick Gaze-Based Assessments of Vigilance and Avoidance in Social Anxiety: a Review |
| title | Gaze-Based Assessments of Vigilance and Avoidance in Social Anxiety: a Review |
| title_full | Gaze-Based Assessments of Vigilance and Avoidance in Social Anxiety: a Review |
| title_fullStr | Gaze-Based Assessments of Vigilance and Avoidance in Social Anxiety: a Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gaze-Based Assessments of Vigilance and Avoidance in Social Anxiety: a Review |
| title_short | Gaze-Based Assessments of Vigilance and Avoidance in Social Anxiety: a Review |
| title_sort | gaze-based assessments of vigilance and avoidance in social anxiety: a review |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56335 |