2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Processing of facial expressions in individuals with social anxiety
| Project/Area Number |
20730464
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Clinical psychology
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| Research Institution | University of East Asia |
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Principal Investigator |
FUJIHARA Yuya University of East Asia, 人間科学部, 准教授 (20368822)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 障害メカニズム研究 |
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| Research Abstract |
Visual scanpaths in response to angry and neutral facial expressions were investigated with social anxiety participants in Study 1 and 2, and the relationship between visual scanpaths and implicit associations in fear structures was studied in Study 3. The results indicated that individuals with high-social anxiety did show the avoidance visual scanpaths to angry faces, but not to neutral faces as did in previous studies. The relationship between visual scanpaths to angry faces and implicit associations was not confirmed. These findings suggest that the relationship between visual scanpaths and implicit association in non-clinical population with high-social anxiety is weaker than in clinical population.
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