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Gaze perception in social anxiety and social anxiety disorder.

  • Schulze L Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany.
  • Renneberg B Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany.
  • Lobmaier JS Institute of Psychology, University of Bern Bern, Switzerland ; Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern Bern, Switzerland.
  • 2014-01-01
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  • Frontiers in human neuroscience. - 2013
avoidance
cone of gaze
emotion
eye gaze
eye-tracking
mutual gaze
social anxiety
social anxiety disorder
English Clinical observations suggest abnormal gaze perception to be an important indicator of social anxiety disorder (SAD). Experimental research has yet paid relatively little attention to the study of gaze perception in SAD. In this article we first discuss gaze perception in healthy human beings before reviewing self-referential and threat-related biases of gaze perception in clinical and non-clinical socially anxious samples. Relative to controls, socially anxious individuals exhibit an enhanced self-directed perception of gaze directions and demonstrate a pronounced fear of direct eye contact, though findings are less consistent regarding the avoidance of mutual gaze in SAD. Prospects for future research and clinical implications are discussed.
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