Visual attention during virtual social situations depends on social anxiety

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 425-430

  Mühlberger, Andreas ^a   Wieser, Matthias J ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STUDENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 50149089455     PISSN: 10949313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2007.0084     Document Type: Article

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