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Orienting and maintenance of gaze in contamination fear: Biases for disgust and fear cues

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Armstrong, Thomas, Olatunji, Bunmi O., Sarawgi, Shivali, Simmons, Casey·2010·Behaviour Research and Therapy
DOI 10.1016/j.brat.2010.01.002PMC PMC2862859
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The present study examines the extent to which attentional biases in contamination fear commonly observed in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are specific to disgust or fear cues, as well as the components of attention involved. Eye tracking was used to provide greater sensitivity and specificity than afforded by traditional reaction time measures of attention. Participants high (HCF; n = 23) and low (LCF; n = 25) in contamination fear were presented with disgusted, fearful, or happy faces paired with neutral faces for 3 s trials. Evidence of both vigilance and maintenance-based biases for threat was found. The high group oriented attention to fearful faces but not disgusted faces compared to the low group. However, the high group maintained attention on both disgusted and fearful expressions compared to the low group, a pattern consistent across the 3 s trials. The implications of these findings for conceptualizing emotional factors that moderate attentional biases in contamination-based OCD are discussed.

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  • Gaze duration in the initial 500 ms is highly correlated with the direction of initial orienting (rs = .76 to .84, ps < .001).

    “gaze duration in the initial 500 ms has been found to be highly correlated with the direction of initial orienting (rs = .76 to .84, ps < .001; Armstrong et al., 2010)”

    From Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: a meta-analytic review and synthesis (2012) · cites this paper as Armstrong et al., 2010

  • The event-related and epoch-related indicators of initial maintenance are moderately correlated (rs = .33 to .46, ps < .05).

    “These indicators have been found to be moderately correlated (rs = .33 to .46, ps < .05; Armstrong et al., 2010).”

    From Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: a meta-analytic review and synthesis (2012) · cites this paper as Armstrong et al., 2010

  • The average latency of initial fixations on threat in anxious individuals ranged from roughly 225 to 400 ms.

    “The average latency of initial fixations on threat in anxious individuals ranged from roughly 225 to 400 ms (Armstrong et al., 2010; Garner et al., 2006; Mogg et al., 2000).”

    From Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: a meta-analytic review and synthesis (2012) · cites this paper as Armstrong et al., 2010

  • Epoch-related indicators may be too indirect to reliably capture the orienting of gaze.

    “Epoch-related indicators may be too indirect to reliably capture the orienting of gaze, despite two studies finding convergence between event- and epoch-related measures of orienting (Armstrong et al., 2010; Rinck & Becker, 2006).”

    From Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: a meta-analytic review and synthesis (2012) · cites this paper as Armstrong et al., 2010

  • In free viewing tasks, EMs to threatening stimuli were not completed until roughly 225 ms to 400 ms after stimulus onset.

    “In free viewing tasks, EMs to threatening stimuli were not completed until roughly 225 ms to 400 ms after stimulus onset (Armstrong et al., 2010; Garner et al., 2006; Mogg et al., 2000), suggesting that increased maintenance of visual attention on threat could occur prior to one’s initial fixation on threat.”

    From Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: a meta-analytic review and synthesis (2012) · cites this paper as Armstrong et al., 2010

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Authors
Armstrong, T., Olatunji, B. O., Sarawgi, S., & Simmons, C.
Affiliations
Vanderbilt University (US)
Corresponding author
Armstrong, Thomas
ORCID
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-05
Volume
48
Issue
5
Pages
402-408
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.brat.2010.01.002
PMC
PMC2862859
OpenAlex
W1981669036
Cited by
89
References
73
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R03MH082210)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
fear of contamination, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attentional bias, disgust, fear, threat vigilance, gaze direction, facial expressions, emotional attention
MeSH terms
Arousal, Attention, Avoidance Learning, Facial Expression, Fear, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Hygiene, Male, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Orientation, Phobic Disorders, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Social Perception, Young Adult

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