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The Impact of Mild Depression on Evaluative Language Cognition and Social Interactive Behavior Based on Eye-Tracking Experiment
Abstract
Verbal communication with evaluative characters of different emotional valence occurs often in our daily social interaction. Generally, positive evaluative language involving praise and appreciation triggers social approach whereas negative evaluative language involving criticism and censure triggers social avoidance. Differently, individuals with depression may display distorted social behavior due to their excessive sensitivity to negative evaluative language but blunt to positive information. Based on the eye-tracking experiment, this study employs an evaluative movie watching task to investigate the influence of depression-induced negatively-biased processing for evaluative language on gaze to evaluation-givers' eyes. The results suggest that negative self-schema in depressed individuals contributes to their excessive sensitivity to negative evaluative language, which leads to their avoidance behavior in response to social criticism. The findings have great implications for understanding social dysfunctions in individuals with depressive symptoms.
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