Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Research Group Social Stress and Family Health, Leipzig, Germany.
Sci Rep. 2019 Feb 11;9(1):1797. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-39342-8.
Eye gaze conveys crucial information for social interactions, with straight versus averted gaze triggering distinct emotional and cognitive processes. The "stare-in-the-crowd" effect exemplifies such differential visual processing of gaze direction, in more recent reports also in interaction with head orientation. Besides aiming at replicating the "stare-in-the-crowd" effect by means of an eye gaze by head orientation interaction, the present study intended to for the first time testing its susceptibility to inter-individual differences in trait, social, and attachment anxiety. Our findings reveal a significant relation between the "stare-in-the-crowd" effect and social and attachment, but not trait anxiety, and therefore provide preliminary cues for personality influences on visual processing of eye gaze and head orientation.
目光注视传递着社交互动的关键信息，正视与斜视会引发不同的情绪和认知过程。“凝视人群”效应就是这种对注视方向的不同视觉处理的一个例子，最近的报告还表明，这种效应与头部方向的相互作用有关。本研究不仅旨在通过头部方向与眼睛注视的相互作用来复制“凝视人群”效应，还首次测试了其对特质、社会和依恋焦虑的个体差异的敏感性。我们的研究结果表明，“凝视人群”效应与社会和依恋焦虑显著相关，但与特质焦虑无关，因此为个性对眼睛注视和头部方向的视觉处理的影响提供了初步线索。
