Eye Movement Study on Attention Bias to Body Height Stimuli in Height Dissatisfied Males

Fuguo Chen; Fuguo Chen; Jie Liu; Jie Liu; Shuanghong Chen; Shuanghong Chen; Hong Chen; Hong Chen; Xiao Gao; Xiao Gao

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02209

Frontiers in Psychology (Dec 2017)

Eye Movement Study on Attention Bias to Body Height Stimuli in Height Dissatisfied Males

Fuguo Chen,
Fuguo Chen,
Jie Liu,
Jie Liu,
Shuanghong Chen,
Shuanghong Chen,
Hong Chen,
Hong Chen,
Xiao Gao,
Xiao Gao

Affiliations

Fuguo Chen: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Fuguo Chen: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Jie Liu: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Jie Liu: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Shuanghong Chen: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Shuanghong Chen: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Hong Chen: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Hong Chen: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Xiao Gao: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Xiao Gao: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02209
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8

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The present study investigated attention bias in response to height-related words among young men in China. 47 [26 high height dissatisfied (HHD) and 21 low height dissatisfied (LHD)] men performed a dot-probe task. Eye movement (EM) recordings showed that compared to LHD men, HHD men had an avoidance bias in response to height-related words, which was revealed by less frequent first fixations on both tall-related and short-related words, and showed significantly shorter first fixations on short-related words. There was no other significant difference in EM indices (i.e., first fixation latency and gaze duration) between two groups. In addition, HHD participants were significantly slower than LHD participants when responding to probes preceded by short-related words, while there was no difference when probes were preceded by tall-related or neutral words. In sum, the present results indicate that HHD men selectively avoid cues related to short height.

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ISSN: 1664-1078 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology
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