Loneliness is a distressing emotional state that motivates individuals to renew and maintain
social contact. It has been suggested that lonely individuals suffer from a cognitive bias …

Loneliness is thought to serve as an adaptive signal indicating the need to repair or replace
salutary social connections. Accordingly, loneliness may influence preferences for …

It has been hypothesized that lonely individuals demonstrate hypervigilance toward social
threats. However, recent studies have raised doubts about the reliability of tasks commonly …

Prior research has shown that loneliness is associated with hypervigilance to social threats,
with eye‐tracking research showing lonely people display a specific attentional bias when …

Loneliness exacerbates psychological distress and increases the risk of psychopathology
after trauma exposure. However, it is still unclear whether a lack of social connectedness …

Perceived social isolation, or loneliness, has been repeatedly linked to numerous adverse
health outcomes. Much effort has been directed towards elucidating the mechanisms …

Making eye contact with our conversational partners is what is most common in multimodal
communication. Yet, little is known about this behavior. Prior studies have reported different …

This paper presents a qualitative research study to explore how social pressures contribute
to normative behaviour of adult smokers. Drawing from theories of social learning, behaviour …

This chapter focuses on eye tracking in social psychological research with the goal of
offering a brief discussion on the importance of visual attention in social cognitive theorizing …

The experience of loneliness is universal and may have an adverse effect on neurocognitive
functioning even at a younger age. Using a comprehensive neurocognitive functioning test …