Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10448279 | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
This study investigated the time-course of attentional bias in socially phobic (SP) and non-phobic (NP) adults. Participants viewed angry and happy faces paired with neutral faces (i.e., face-face pairs) and angry, happy and neutral faces paired with household objects (i.e., face-object pairs) for 5000Â ms. Eye movement (EM) was measured throughout to assess biases in early and sustained attention. Attentional bias occurred only for face-face pairs. SP adults were vigilant for angry faces relative to neutral faces in the first 500Â ms of the 5000Â ms exposure, relative to NP adults. SP adults were also vigilant for happy faces over 500Â ms, although there were no group-based differences in attention to happy-neutral face pairs. There were no group differences in attention to faces throughout the remainder of the exposure. Results suggest that social phobia is characterised by early vigilance for social cues with no bias in subsequent processing.
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Authors
Amanda L. Gamble, Ronald M. Rapee,