The time course of attentional disengagement from angry faces in social anxiety

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Volume 42 Issue 1 Page 122-128 published_at 2011-03
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Title ( eng )
The time course of attentional disengagement from angry faces in social anxiety
Creator
Moriya Jun
Tanno Yoshihiko
Source Title
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Volume 42
Issue 1
Start Page 122
End Page 128
Abstract
While impaired attentional disengagement from threatening stimuli is thought to enhance social anxiety, it is unclear when the impaired disengagement occurs accurately. We used a gap task (Experiment 1) and an overlap task (Experiment 2) to reveal the impaired attentional disengagement from angry faces in socially anxious people with non-treatment seeking undergraduates. High (N = 17 in Experiments 1 and 2) and low socially anxious people (N = 17 in Experiment 1 and 19 in Experiment 2) were asked to fixate on an angry or neutral face presented at the center of a screen. Then, they discriminated the peripheral target stimuli. When there was a temporal gap between the face and target in Experiment 1 (gap task), the reaction times (RTs) for angry and neutral faces did not differ for all participants. However, when there was no gap and the face continued to appear in Experiment 2 (overlap task), the RTs for angry faces in high socially anxious people were longer than those for neutral faces after presentation times of 300 ms or longer. In low socially anxious people, the RTs following the angry and neutral faces did not differ. These results suggest that high socially anxious people face difficulty in disengaging attention from angry faces after recognizing them.
Keywords
Social anxiety
Disengagement
Angry faces
Gap-overlap task
NDC
Psychology [ 140 ]
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
Pergamon Elsevier Science Ltd
Date of Issued 2011-03
Rights
Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd
Publish Type Author’s Original
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0005-7916
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jbtep.2010.08.001
[NCID] AA00251061
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2010.08.001