Social anxiety is related to reduced face gaze during a naturalistic social interaction

Figures & data

Figure 1. One of the reference images depicting the conversation task; the gray circle is the face AOI.

Table 1. Descriptive statistics for segment duration and face gaze measures.

Conversational role	Listening		Speaking
Intimacy level	Low	High	Low	High
	Segment duration in seconds
M (SD)	455 (98)	261 (59)	426 (131)	195 (82)
Skewness	.22	−.04	.43	1.02
Kurtosis	−.87	−.92	.79	1.29
	Total fixation duration on face in seconds
M (SD)	217 (127)	122 (72)	76 (54)	33 (24)
Skewness	.17	.30	1.06	.99
Kurtosis	−.42	−.44	1.00	.41
	Proportion of fixations on the face
M (SD)	.49 (.27)	.48 (.26)	.18 (.10)	.17 (.10)
Skewness	.21	.09	.36	.45
Kurtosis	−.67	−.79	−.31	−.53
	Mean fixation duration on face in seconds
M (SD)	1.17 (.72)	1.24 (.85)	.60 (.32)	.61 (.32)
Skewness	.88	1.18	1.43	1.19
Kurtosis	.24	1.14	2.18	1.57
	Natural logarithm of mean fixation duration on face in seconds
M (SD)	.72 (.32)	.75 (.35)	.45 (.18)	.46 (.19)
Skewness	.20	.44	.86	.64
Kurtosis	−.43	−.42	1.00	.46

Figure 2. Scatterplot showing the relation between social anxiety and total fixation duration on the face in seconds for low and high intimacy conditions.

Figure 3. Scatterplot showing the relation between social anxiety and (ln transformed) mean fixation duration on the face in seconds during listening and speaking.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available upon request (for scientific purposes) in Dataverse.