Wang Yuetan, Liang Jingjing, Zhu Ziwen, Gao Jingyi, Yao Qiuyan, Ding Xiaobin
School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730030, China.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Mar 18;14(3):244. doi: 10.3390/bs14030244.
Attentional bias towards threatening information is a crucial factor contributing to the development and persistence of social anxiety. However, the attentional bias towards threat information and the preferential processing pattern of emotional cues in individuals with social anxiety disorder during integrated facial and physical stimuli processing remain unclear. In this study, we employed a dot-probe paradigm to investigate the attentional bias towards integrated emotions (facial-body) among students with high and low levels of social anxiety (Experiment 1). Experiments 2 and 3 examined the attentional bias of socially anxious individuals when faced with conflicting emotional cues from faces or bodies in relation to integrated emotions. The data revealed that participants both high and low levels of social anxiety participants exhibited accelerated orienting and biased attention towards facial-body emotional processing. When there was inconsistency between emotional cues from faces or bodies and integrated emotions, higher levels of social anxiety were associated with increased vigilance towards threatening faces or bodies. These findings underscore that individuals with social anxiety possess an ability to rapidly capture threatening cues during the processing of facial-body emotional stimuli while also demonstrating a tendency to avoid relying solely on facial cues by compensating through bodily cues for emotion perception.
对威胁性信息的注意偏向是导致社交焦虑发展和持续的关键因素。然而，社交焦虑障碍患者在整合面部和身体刺激过程中对威胁信息的注意偏向以及情绪线索的优先加工模式仍不清楚。在本研究中，我们采用点探测范式来研究高社交焦虑水平和低社交焦虑水平学生对整合情绪（面部-身体）的注意偏向（实验1）。实验2和实验3考察了社交焦虑个体在面对来自面部或身体的与整合情绪相冲突的情绪线索时的注意偏向。数据显示，高社交焦虑水平和低社交焦虑水平的参与者在面部-身体情绪加工方面均表现出加速定向和偏向注意。当来自面部或身体的情绪线索与整合情绪不一致时，较高水平的社交焦虑与对威胁性面部或身体的警惕性增加有关。这些发现强调，社交焦虑个体在处理面部-身体情绪刺激时具有快速捕捉威胁线索的能力，同时也表现出一种倾向，即通过身体线索来补偿情绪感知，从而避免仅依赖面部线索。
