Fig 1.
Schematic overview of a trial of the combined dot probe and goal task.
The first three boxes depict the dot probe task in which the presentation of the cues was followed by a probe (black square) which had to be localized. Cues and goal stimuli were photographs in the study. The last two boxes display the goal task in which the presentation of a single stimulus was followed by the appearance of a question mark. Participants had to react to the question mark by pressing the spacebar when the single stimulus presented had been goal stimulus. A goal trial only followed a trial in the dot probe task from time to time.
Table 1.
Mean RTs and standard deviations (in ms) as a function of phase goal, trial type, and congruence.
Fig 2.
Attentional bias indices for the two trial types presenting angry faces.
Angry faces were presented in comparison to houses or control car stimuli in house goal and angry face goal phases. Positive attentional bias indices indicate attention towards angry faces, negative attentional bias indices attention towards houses or control car stimuli. Error bars represent standard errors of mean.
Fig 3.
Attentional bias indices for trials presenting houses.
Houses were presented in comparison to control car stimuli in house goal and angry face goal phases. Positive attentional bias indices indicate attention towards houses, negative attentional bias indices attention towards control car stimuli. Error bars represent standard errors of mean.
Fig 4.
Association between social anxiety and attention to angry faces.
Scatterplot showing the association between the SPIN score (y-axis) and attention bias to angry faces across the trials showing angry faces (in ms, x-axis) in the phases where angry phases were goal relevant.