Differential impact of trait, social, and attachment anxiety on the 
stare-in-the-crowd effect

Burra, Nicolas; Massait, Solene; Vrticka, Pascal

doi:10.1038/s41598-019-39342-8

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Differential impact of trait, social, and attachment anxiety on the stare-in-the-crowd effect

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Vrticka, Pascal
Research Group Social Stress and Family Health, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Burra, N., Massait, S., & Vrticka, P. (2019). Differential impact of trait, social, and attachment anxiety on the stare-in-the-crowd effect. Scientific Reports, 9: 1797. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-39342-8.

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Abstract

Eye gaze conveys crucial information for social interactions, with straight versus averted gaze triggering distinct emotional and cognitive processes. The “stare-in-the-crowd” effect exemplifies such differential visual processing of gaze direction, in more recent reports also in interaction with head orientation. Besides aiming at replicating the “stare-in-the-crowd” effect by means of an eye gaze by head orientation interaction, the present study intended to for the first time testing its susceptibility to inter-individual differences in trait, social, and attachment anxiety. Our findings reveal a significant relation between the “stare-in-the-crowd” effect and social and attachment, but not trait anxiety, and therefore provide preliminary cues for personality influences on visual processing of eye gaze and head orientation.