Vivien Günther
Biographic Data
| ID | 7959776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivien Günther |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivien |
| FAMILY NAME | Günther |
| SIGNATURE | GÜNTHER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eye-tracking evidence of an association between social anxiety and avoidance of threatening faces in healthy women
Socially anxious individuals are characterized by higher social fears and a sensitivity to signals of rejection. Eye-tracking studies in socially anxious participants without clinical diagnoses provided mixed findings on altered attentional processes. Investigations of gaze behavior in response to socially threatening scenes are scarce. By using eye-tracking technology in a free-viewing task, the present study examined in 108 healthy women the re…
A look at the free-viewing paradigm in eye-tracking research to assess positive attentional bias
Attention orientation toward positive stimuli may have mood-protective or mood-enhancing effects. Eye-tracking is an increasingly administered method to assess biased attention allocation and maintenance. In the present paper, we point to an underestimated but reliable method of eye-tracking research for measuring positive attentional bias and its temporal dynamics: the free-viewing paradigm. To date, few free-viewing eye-tracking studies have sp…
Deployment of attention to facial expressions varies as a function of emotional quality—but not in alexithymic individuals
Our results show evidence of attentional biases for positive and fearful social information in non-alexithymic individuals, but not in alexithymic individuals. The lack of spontaneous attentional preference for these social stimuli in alexithymia might contribute to a vulnerability for developing emotional disorders. Our data also suggest that briefly presented emotion words may not facilitate gaze orientation toward emotion-congruent stimuli
Coping With Anxiety
Our findings indicate that dispositional strategies to deal with anxiety-provoking situations are related to volumetric alterations in the thalamus, a brain structure that has been implicated in the mediation of attentional processes and alertness, and the anticipation of harm. The dispositional tendency to monitor the environment for potential threats (i.e., vigilance), appears to be associated with volumetric increases in the thalamus, whereas …
Alexithymia Is Associated With Deficits in Visual Search for Emotional Faces in Clinical Depression
Background: The concept of alexithymia is characterized by difficulties identifying and describing one's emotions. Alexithymic individuals are impaired in the recognition of others' emotional facial expressions. Alexithymia is quite common in patients suffering from major depressive disorder. The face-in-the-crowd task is a visual search paradigm that assesses processing of multiple facial emotions. In the present eye-tracking study, the relation…
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Alexithymia Is Associated With Deficits in Visual Search for Emotional Faces in Clinical Depression
Background: The concept of alexithymia is characterized by difficulties identifying and describing one's emotions. Alexithymic individuals are impaired in the recognition of others' emotional facial expressions. Alexithymia is quite common in patients suffering from major depressive disorder. The face-in-the-crowd task is a visual search paradigm that assesses processing of multiple facial emotions. In the present eye-tracking study, the relation…
Coping With Anxiety
Our findings indicate that dispositional strategies to deal with anxiety-provoking situations are related to volumetric alterations in the thalamus, a brain structure that has been implicated in the mediation of attentional processes and alertness, and the anticipation of harm. The dispositional tendency to monitor the environment for potential threats (i.e., vigilance), appears to be associated with volumetric increases in the thalamus, whereas …
Deployment of attention to facial expressions varies as a function of emotional quality—but not in alexithymic individuals
Our results show evidence of attentional biases for positive and fearful social information in non-alexithymic individuals, but not in alexithymic individuals. The lack of spontaneous attentional preference for these social stimuli in alexithymia might contribute to a vulnerability for developing emotional disorders. Our data also suggest that briefly presented emotion words may not facilitate gaze orientation toward emotion-congruent stimuli
A look at the free-viewing paradigm in eye-tracking research to assess positive attentional bias
Attention orientation toward positive stimuli may have mood-protective or mood-enhancing effects. Eye-tracking is an increasingly administered method to assess biased attention allocation and maintenance. In the present paper, we point to an underestimated but reliable method of eye-tracking research for measuring positive attentional bias and its temporal dynamics: the free-viewing paradigm. To date, few free-viewing eye-tracking studies have sp…
Eye-tracking evidence of an association between social anxiety and avoidance of threatening faces in healthy women
Socially anxious individuals are characterized by higher social fears and a sensitivity to signals of rejection. Eye-tracking studies in socially anxious participants without clinical diagnoses provided mixed findings on altered attentional processes. Investigations of gaze behavior in response to socially threatening scenes are scarce. By using eye-tracking technology in a free-viewing task, the present study examined in 108 healthy women the re…
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Attentional bias (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)