title: Looking differences in relation to examiner's attitude in paranoid patients and normal controls.
abstract: The differences in amount and pattern of looking during interviews of 20 male paranoid patients and 20 nomral controls are investigated in relation to a female examiner's change of attitude, as indicated by change in the tone of her voice, by means of a cross-over design. The results indicate that paranoids do not follow the "decreased looking" model suggested for schizophrenics in other studies. Patients show a significant order effect, a higher overall amount of looking and a quite opposite pattern of looking across interviews as compared to controls. It is suggested that patients may have difficulties in regulating their visual behaviour according to examiner's attitude, resulting to a "stereotyped" pattern of looking. These findings are discussed with particular reference to visual information processing.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014831:Voice