Eye movement patterns in response to fear- and disgust-eliciting reptiles

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Eye movement patterns in response to fear- and disgust-eliciting reptiles

Original language description

We tested the hypothesis that human reaction to snakes is very specific when compared to other reptiles.Using the eye-tracker, we measured free-gazing pattern of 61 respondents while presenting snake and other reptileimages categorized as fear-eliciting, disgusting, beautiful, and neutral. We divided the respondents according to theirSNAQ and DS-R scores into high/low fear and high/low disgust groups. We found that while the time watchingthe stimuli was equal, there were more fixations on the non-snakes due to more continuous watching of the snakestimuli. With fear-eliciting stimuli, most of the attention was directed toward the animal&apos;s head, but people focusedon both the head and tail when watching the disgusting stimuli. The high-fear respondents&apos; fixation number wasoverall lower. We conclude that the respondents&apos; gaze pattern differs when watching snakes and this also appliesfor other fear-eliciting reptiles. We offer various explanations for these findings, supporting the hypothesis ofsnakes representing a specific group of fear-eliciting animals.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae

ISSN

1211-376X

e-ISSN

2788-1369

Volume of the periodical

neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

86

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

193-209

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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