Abstract：
The debate surrounding whether social and non-social attention share the same mechanism has been contentious. While prior studies predominantly focused on engagement, we examined the potential disparity between social and non-social attention from both perspectives of engagement and disengagement, respectively. We developed a two-stage attention-shifting paradigm to capture both attention engagement and disengagement. Combining results from five eye-tracking experiments, we supported that the disengagement of social attention markedly outpaces that of non-social attention, while no significant discrepancy emerges in engagement. We uncovered that the faster disengagement of social attention came from its social nature by eliminating alternative explanations including broader fixation distribution width, reduced directional salience in the peripheral visual field, decreased cue-object categorical consistency, reduced perceived validity, and faster processing time. Our study supported that the distinction between social and non-social attention is rooted in attention disengagement, not engagement.
摘要：
围绕社会和非社会关注是否共享相同机制的辩论一直存在争议。虽然以前的研究主要集中在参与上，我们从参与和脱离两个角度研究了社会和非社会关注之间的潜在差距，分别。我们开发了一个两阶段的注意力转移范式来捕捉注意力参与和脱离。结合五个眼动追踪实验的结果，我们支持社会关注的脱离明显超过非社会关注的脱离，而参与方面没有明显差异。我们发现，通过消除包括更广泛的固定分布宽度在内的替代解释，社会注意力的更快脱离来自其社会性质，减少周边视野中的方向显著性，线索-对象分类一致性降低，感知有效性降低，和更快的处理时间。我们的研究支持社会和非社会关注之间的区别根源于注意力脱离，不是订婚。
