How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces

被引：13

作者：

Federico, Giovanni ^{[1
]}

Ferrante, Donatella ^{[2
]}

Marcatto, Francesco ^{[2
]}

Brandimonte, Maria Antonella ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] IRCCS SDN, Naples, Italy

[2] Univ Trieste, Dept Life Sci, Trieste, Italy

[3] Suor Orsola Benincasa Univ, Lab Expt Psychol, Naples, Italy

来源：

PEERJ | 2021年 / 9卷

关键词：

COVID-19; Pandemic; Human faces; Eye contact; Visual attention; Social interaction; Social cognition; Eye-tracking; Face processing; Social brain; EYE-MOVEMENTS; CONFIDENCE-INTERVALS; NEURAL BASIS; GAZE; CONTACT; BRAIN; PERCEPTION; RISK;

D O I：

10.7717/peerj.11380

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Do we look at persons currently or previously affected by COVID-19 the same way as we do with healthy ones? In this eye-tracking study, we investigated how participants (N = 54) looked at faces of individuals presented as "COVID-19 Free", "Sick with COVID-19", or "Recovered from COVID-19". Results showed that participants tend to look at the eyes of COVID-19-free faces longer than at those of both COVID-19-related faces. Crucially, we also found an increase of visual attention for the mouth of the COVID-19-related faces, possibly due to the threatening characterisation of such area as a transmission vehicle for SARS-CoV-2. Thus, by detailing how people dynamically changed the way of looking at faces as a function of the perceived risk of contagion, we provide the first evidence in the literature about the impact of the pandemic on the most basic level of social interaction.

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