Loneliness and hypervigilance to social cues in females: An eye-tracking study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Lodder, Gerine M A ^a   Scholte, Ron H J ^a,d   Clemens, Ivar A H ^b   Engels, Rutger C M E ^a,e   Goossens, Luc ^c   Verhagen, Maaike ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Praktikon   (Netherlands)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION ASSESSMENT; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING BIAS; INTERPRETATION BIAS; LONELINESS; SOCIAL CUE; VISUAL ATTENTION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; OCULOGRAPHY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928538668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125141     Document Type: Article

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