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A Study of Attention Bias toward Fearful Faces with Social Anxiety Group using Dot Probe Task

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2018, v.30 no.4, pp.421-428
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.4.008


& (2018). A Study of Attention Bias toward Fearful Faces with Social Anxiety Group using Dot Probe Task. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 30(4), 421-428, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.4.008

Abstract

People with emotional problems like social anxiety disorder or depression tend to show attention bias to socially threatening stimuli (Mogg, Philippot, & Bradley, 2004). In probing such attention bias, Stroop task and other tasks have been used (Williams, Mathews, & MacLeod, 1996), with issues concerning interpretation of results. Using simple dot probe task considered as indicative of attention bias, this study tried to reveal whether social anxiety and its level could predict performance on dot probe task. When attention bias scores on fear and happy faces of females and males were calculated, there was observed no difference between social anxiety group and control group. However, Beck Anxiety Inventory scores predicted attention bias toward female’s fearful faces in social anxiety group, but this prediction did not apply to female’s happy faces and male’s faces.

keywords
social anxiety, attention bias, dot probe, facial expression, fear, 사회불안, 주의편향, 점탐사, 얼굴 표정, 공포

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