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Albert Moukheiber¹, Gilles Rautureau, Fernando Perez-Diaz

¹CNRS USR 3246, UPMC, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. amoukheiber@gmail.com

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Individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) without fear of blushing avoid eye contact more than those with SAD and fear of blushing, or healthy controls. This suggests social phobia may be a heterogeneous disorder.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Social Neuroscience

Background:

Gaze aversion is a potential core feature of social phobia.
Fear of blushing, a symptom of social anxiety disorder (SAD), lacks specific diagnostic classification.
Social anxiety disorder is recognized as a heterogeneous condition.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare gaze aversion patterns in individuals with SAD with and without fear of blushing.
To investigate the behavioral characteristics associated with fear of blushing in social anxiety disorder.
To examine the relationship between phobia severity and gaze aversion.

Main Methods:

Utilized eye-tracking technology to monitor participants' gaze.
Compared fixation counts and dwell time in the eye region of emotional faces.
Recruited participants with DSM-IV SAD with fear of blushing (SAD+FB), SAD without fear of blushing (SAD-FB), and healthy controls.

Main Results:

The SAD-FB group exhibited significantly more gaze avoidance compared to both controls and the SAD+FB group.
No significant difference in gaze aversion was found between the SAD+FB group and the control group.
A positive correlation was observed between the severity of social phobia and the extent of gaze avoidance across all groups.

Conclusions:

Findings suggest that social anxiety disorder is a heterogeneous condition.
Individuals with SAD but without fear of blushing display distinct gaze aversion behaviors.
Further research is warranted to determine if fear of blushing represents a specific subtype of social anxiety disorder with unique behavioral markers.