Data from the paper: Inhibition of Return in Fear of Spiders: Discrepant Eye Movement and Reaction Time Data

Item Type:	Dataset
Title:	Data from the paper: Inhibition of Return in Fear of Spiders: Discrepant Eye Movement and Reaction Time Data
Date:	3 July 2014
Creator:	Berdica, Elisa ; Gerdes, Antje B. M. ; Pittig, Andre ; Alpers, Georg W.
Divisions:	School of Social Sciences > Klinische u. Biologische Psychologie u. Psychotherapie (Alpers 2010-)

DDC Classification:	150 Psychology
Keywords:	attention; attentional bias; anxiety; inhibition of return; eye-tracking; spider fear
Abstract:	Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to a bias against returning the attention to a previously attended location. As a foraging facilitator it is thought to facilitate systematic visual search. With respect to neutral stimuli, this is generally thought to be adaptive, but when threatening stimuli appear in our environment, such a bias may be maladaptive. This experiment investigated the influence of phobia-related stimuli on the IOR effect using a discrimination task. A sample of 50 students (25 high, 25 low in spider fear) completed an IOR task including schematic representations of spiders or butterflies as targets. Eye movements were recorded and to assess discrimination among targets, participants indicated with button presses if targets were spiders or butterflies. Reaction time data did not reveal a significant IOR effect but a significant interaction of group and target; spider fearful participants were faster to respond to spider targets than to butterflies. Furthermore, eye-tracking data showed a robust IOR effect independent of stimulus category. These results offer a more comprehensive assessment of the motor and oculomotor factors involved in the IOR effect.

URL:	https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/167/
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.7801/167
Availability (Controlled):	Delivery
Publication(s) (MADOC):	Berdica, Elisa und Gerdes, Antje B. M. und Pittig, Andre und Alpers, Georg W. (2014), Inhibition of return under fear: Discrepant eye movement and reaction time data.

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