Orienting and Maintenance of Gaze to Facial Expressions in Social Anxiety Export

@article{citeulike:1288576, abstract = {In 2 experiments, the authors tested predictions from cognitive models of social anxiety regarding attentional biases for social and nonsocial cues by monitoring eye movements to pictures of faces and objects in high social anxiety (HSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) individuals. Under no-stress conditions (Experiment 1), HSA individuals initially directed their gaze toward neutral faces, relative to objects, more often than did LSA participants. However, under social-evaluative stress (Experiment 2), HSA individuals showed reduced biases in initial orienting and maintenance of gaze on faces (cf. objects) compared with the LSA group. HSA individuals were also relatively quicker to look at emotional faces than neutral faces but looked at emotional faces for less time, compared with LSA individuals, consistent with a vigilant-avoidant pattern of bias.}, author = {Garner, Matthew and Mogg, Karin and Bradley, Brendan P.}, citeulike-article-id = {1288576}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WY0-4MPKBCT-C/2/cc4dbb4427e32cf5b135d9f6b288b2da}, journal = {Journal of Abnormal Psychology}, keywords = {anxiety, expression, face, gaze, social}, month = {November}, number = {4}, pages = {760--770}, posted-at = {2007-05-10 16:53:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Orienting and Maintenance of Gaze to Facial Expressions in Social Anxiety}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WY0-4MPKBCT-C/2/cc4dbb4427e32cf5b135d9f6b288b2da}, volume = {115}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1288576 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1288576 N2 - In 2 experiments, the authors tested predictions from cognitive models of social anxiety regarding attentional biases for social and nonsocial cues by monitoring eye movements to pictures of faces and objects in high social anxiety (HSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) individuals. Under no-stress conditions (Experiment 1), HSA individuals initially directed their gaze toward neutral faces, relative to objects, more often than did LSA participants. However, under social-evaluative stress (Experiment 2), HSA individuals showed reduced biases in initial orienting and maintenance of gaze on faces (cf. objects) compared with the LSA group. HSA individuals were also relatively quicker to look at emotional faces than neutral faces but looked at emotional faces for less time, compared with LSA individuals, consistent with a vigilant-avoidant pattern of bias. IS - 4 JF - Journal of Abnormal Psychology EP - 770 TI - Orienting and Maintenance of Gaze to Facial Expressions in Social Anxiety VL - 115 SP - 760 KW - anxiety KW - expression KW - face KW - gaze KW - social AU - Garner, Matthew AU - Mogg, Karin AU - Bradley, Brendan PY - 2006/11// UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WY0-4MPKBCT-C/2/cc4dbb4427e32cf5b135d9f6b288b2da ER -