Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sci Rep. 2024 Apr 15;14(1):8712. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58987-8.
What humans look at strongly determines what they see. We show that individual differences in the tendency to look at positive stimuli are stable across time and across contents, establishing gaze positivity preference as a perceptual trait that determines the amount of positively valence stimuli individuals select for visual processing. Furthermore, we show that patients with major depressive disorder exhibit consistently low positivity preference before treatment. In a subset of patients, we also assessed the positivity preference after two months of treatment in which positivity gaze preference increased to levels similar to healthy individuals. We discuss the possible practical diagnostic applications of these findings, as well as how this general gaze-related trait may influence other behavioral and psychological aspects.
人看什么决定了人能看到什么。我们证明，对积极刺激的注视倾向的个体差异在时间和内容上都是稳定的，这就确立了注视正性偏好作为一种感知特质，它决定了个体选择进行视觉处理的积极效价刺激的数量。此外，我们还表明，重度抑郁症患者在治疗前表现出一致的低正性偏好。在患者的一个亚组中，我们还评估了治疗两个月后的正性偏好，此时正性注视偏好增加到与健康个体相似的水平。我们讨论了这些发现可能的实际诊断应用，以及这种普遍的与注视相关的特质如何影响其他行为和心理方面。
