Eye Movments Research On Social Exclusion Leading To The Attentional Bias To Social Interpersonal Information

Social exclusion is common in the lives of everybody, bringing negative effects to our cognition、emotion and behaviors. The one who gets excluded keens to get accepted by others and maintains the stable social relationship because affiliation needs is important in human being. To recover the social relationship, individuals may be sensitive to interpersonal information and show attention bias. In this research the dot-probe task and eye-movement apparatus were used to explore students’attention bias to interpersonal information and the characteristics of the bias, comparing the element constitution in it.The interpersonal information includes interpersonal words and the emotional expression, using in two different experiments. The first experiment adopted a mixed design of two factors,2 (exclusion group, control group) x2 (P-O, N-O) to explore the characteristics of the attention bias to interpersonal evaluation information. The second experiment adopted a mixed design of two factors,2 (exclusion group, control group) x2 (P-O, N-O) to explore the characteristics of the attention bias to emotional expression. Use ball tossing paradigm to exclude participants in the experiment and measure the affiliation need.The main conclusions are as the following:(1) Social exclusion increase the affiliation need of participants;(2) The participants in exclusion group show initial orienting bias, speeded detection bias and initial maintenance bias towards the positive interpersonal evaluation information; and they show initial orienting bias, initial maintenance bias and totally maintenance bias towards the negative interpersonal evaluation information. It suggests that they are sensitive to positive interpersonal evaluation information but maintain more attention on negative interpersonal evaluation information;(3) The participants in exclusion group show initial orienting bias, speeded detection bias, initial maintenance and totally maintenance bias bias towards the positive emotional expression; and they show initial orienting bias and totally maintenance bias towards the negative emotional expression. It suggests that they are sensitive to both positive and negative emotion information but maintain more attention on positive emotion information.