Chen Nigel T M, Clarke Patrick J F
Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, WA, Australia.
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2017 Sep;19(9):59. doi: 10.1007/s11920-017-0808-4.
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.
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. 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.
大量研究试图借助基于眼动追踪的方法，识别出作为社交焦虑特征的选择性注意偏差。本文旨在综述有关眼动追踪研究，这些研究探讨了社交焦虑中的选择性注意偏差。
在多种情境下，社交焦虑可能与在处理情感性社会刺激时注意的警惕和回避模式的混合有关。社交焦虑个体可能还会避免保持眼神接触，并可能通过对周围环境的过度扫描表现出普遍的警惕性。这些发现凸显了眼动追踪方法在增进对作为社交焦虑障碍特征的基于注视的偏差的理解方面的效用，为未来研究提供了有前景的途径。
