Allaert, Jens

Collet, Sarah

Kiyar, Meltem

Müller, Sven

T'Sjoen, Guy

Vanderhasselt, Marie-Anne

English

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IT HURTS WHEN BEING JUDGED: AN EYE TRACKING STUDY IN TRANSGENDER PEOPLEMeltem Kiyara, Jens Allaerta,b, Sarah Colletc, Marie-Anne Vanderhasselta,b , Guy T’Sjoenc, & Sven C. Muellera,daDepartment of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, BelgiumbDepartment of Head and Skin, Ghent University HospitalcDepartment of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Center for Sexology and Gender, Ghent University Hospital, BelgiumdDepartment of Personality, Psychological Assessment and Treatment, University of Deusto, Bilbao, SpainContactMeltem.kiyar@ugent.bewww.meltemkiyar.comUniversiteit Gent@ugentGhent UniversityDepartment of experimental clinical & health psychologyResultsFirst Impression ParadigmSignificant AOI × group effect for average fixation duration, F(6,15877.3) =78.31, p < .001.4 blocks * n = 18 trials,  N = 72 trials in total, duration each block: 5min, total duration of task: 20minPairwise comparisons showed that TM focused their attention longer towardsthe social evaluation, compared to cisgender men.ReferencesMueller, S. C., Wierckx, K., Boccadoro, S., & T’Sjoen. (2017). Neural correlates of ostracism in transgender persons living according to theirgender identity: A potential risk marker for psychopathology?. Psychological Medicine, 48(14), 2313-2320Vanderhasselt, M., Remue, J., Ng,  K., Mueller S.,  & De Raedt, R. (2015). The regulation of positive and negative social feedback: A psychophysiological study. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(3), 553-563.Vanderhasselt, M., De Raedt, R., Nasso, S., Puttevils, L., & Mueller, S. (2018). Don’t judge me: Psychophysiological evidence of gender differences to social evaluative feedback. Biological Psychology, 29-35. MethodsThe first impression paradigm provides explicit feedback of people howdesirable or likeable individuals are. By exposing cisgender men (Mage=25.91,SD=6.29, n=24) and cisgender women (Mage=30.12, SD=9.65, n=33) versustransgender men (TM; Mage=32.22, SD=13.26,n=18) and transgender women (TW;Mage=36.46, SD=10.14, n=13) to positive and negative social evaluations,differences in emotional attention towards the self, the evaluator and socialevaluative information (i.e., AOIs) were investigatedBackgroundThe need to belong, to be accepted and to be loved is a universal human need,and being thwarted in this desire can elicit negative emotions. Transgenderpeople are more vulnerable to social rejection, potentially leading to more inter-and intrapersonal pain. The main goal of this study is to determine theunderlying mechanisms that maintain poor health in transgender persons.Hypothesis: Transgender individuals will fixate longer on the self and/or feedbackduring negative feedback relative to cisgender comparisons.Conclusion Biased attention towards social evaluative information may reflect amechanism through which transgender people experience more inter- andintrapersonal distress. The biased attention may be due to the lower emotion regulation oftransgender individuals. Our preliminary result is showing an increase in vulnarability of TMtowards social evaluations.x Feedback

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