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Gaze and gaze avoidance as perceived by psychiatrists during clinical interviews with schizophrenic, depressed, and anxious patients

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Fifteen experienced psychiatrists rated gaze and gaze avoidance, presented without sound from videotaped recordings of a standardized interview with schizophrenic, depressed and anxious patients. These psychiatrists then derived symptoms and diagnoses from the written transcript of interview and the two classes of rating were compared. Gaze, as perceived by these experienced psychiatrists was different in the three patient groups but the differences were more closely related to symptoms than to diagnoses and “affective” symptoms correlated more closely with gaze than did cognitive symptoms.

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  1. the Department of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford University, OX1 3UD, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Monika Pansa-Henderson B.A., B.Sc(Hons), M.Sc.,M.A.P.S.

  2. Department of Psychiatry, the University of Melbourne, St. Vincent's Hospital, 3065, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

    Ivor. H. Jones M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., F.R.C.Psych., D.P.M.

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Pansa-Henderson, M., Jones, I.H. Gaze and gaze avoidance as perceived by psychiatrists during clinical interviews with schizophrenic, depressed, and anxious patients. J Nonverbal Behav 7, 69–78 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00986869

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