Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610068, People's Republic of China.
Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 1;13(1):5348. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32283-3.
Gaze direction can trigger social attentional orientation, characterised by a speeded reaction time in detecting targets appearing in a gazed-at location compared with those appearing in other locations. This is called the 'gaze-cueing effect' (GCE). Here, we investigated whether a feeling of guilt established through prior interaction with a cueing face could modulate the gaze-cueing effect. Participants first completed a guilt-induction task using a modified dot-estimation paradigm to associate the feeling of guilt with a specific face, after which the face that had established the binding relationship was used as the stimulus in a gaze-cueing task. The results showed that guilt-directed faces and control faces induce equal magnitudes of gaze-cueing effect in 200 ms of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), while guilt-directed faces induce a smaller gaze-cueing effect than control faces in 700 ms SOA. These findings provide preliminary evidence that guilt may modulate social attention triggered by eye gaze at a later stage of processing but not in the earlier stages.
注视方向可以引发社交注意力的定向，其特征是与出现在其他位置的目标相比，检测出现在被注视位置的目标的反应时间更快。这被称为“注视提示效应”（GCE）。在这里，我们研究了通过与提示面孔的先前交互而建立的内疚感是否可以调节注视提示效应。参与者首先使用修改后的点估计范式完成内疚感诱导任务，将内疚感与特定面孔相关联，然后在注视提示任务中使用建立绑定关系的面孔作为刺激。结果表明，在刺激呈现时间（SOA）为 200 毫秒时，内疚导向的面孔和对照面孔诱导出相等大小的注视提示效应，而在 SOA 为 700 毫秒时，内疚导向的面孔比对照面孔诱导出的注视提示效应更小。这些发现初步表明，内疚感可能会在处理的后期阶段而不是在早期阶段调节由眼神引发的社交注意力。
