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Does visual scanpath reflect self-focused and other-focused attention, a maintenance factor of social anxiety?
  • Nozomi Tomita,
  • Ayumi Minamide,
  • Hiroaki Kumano
Nozomi Tomita
Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University

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Ayumi Minamide
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Abstract

Social anxiety disorder has two critical attentional processes, self-focused attention (SFA) and other-focused attention (OFA). These biases are caused by two psychological aspects: Strategies known as positive metacognitive beliefs and negative metacognitive beliefs. A method in which the occurrence of OFA is predicted by eye movement has been proposed. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between SFA and changes of eye movement. The relationship between the degree of SFA and OFA during speech and eye movements was investigated in this study, based on the psychosomatic relationship in which eye movements reflect psychological changes.