The robustness of individual differences in gaze preferences toward faces and eyes across face-to-face experimental designs and its relation to social anxiety.

ABSTRACT: Humans rely heavily on the visual and oculomotor systems during social interactions. This study examined individual differences in gaze behavior in two types of face-to-face social interactions: a screen-based interview and a live interview. The study examined how stable these individual differences are across scenarios and how it relates to individuals' traits of social anxiety, autism, and neuroticism. Extending previous studies, we distinguished between individuals' tendency to look at the face, and the tendency to look at the eyes if the face was fixated. These gaze measures demonstrated high internal consistencies (correlation between two halves of the data within a scenario) within both the screen-based and live interview scenarios. Furthermore, individuals who had a tendency to look

SUBMITTER: Guy N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10210514 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature