Don't look away: Study shows teenage girls who avoid potentially negative feedback prone to higher anxiety

Don't look away: Study shows teenage girls who avoid potentially negative feedback prone to higher anxiety

To better understand anxiety, a psychologist from the University of Kansas studied 90 teenage girls in sessions spanning three years, using wearable eye‐tracking glasses as the subjects gave a speech to two judges: one who responded positively and one who responded potentially negatively. In other words, one judge maintained a neutral facial expression, occasionally looked around the room, and shifted in their seat.