Eye patterns in children: The development of anxiety and emotion

Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 09:42 in Psychology & Sociology

We now know that anxious children tend to avoid making eye contact, and this has consequences for how they experience fear. New research shows that the shorter and less frequently they look at the eyes of others, the more likely they are to be afraid of them, even when there may be no reason to be.

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