{
  "id": 18307590,
  "title": "Social anxiety might not warp how we perceive eye contact",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/social-anxiety-might-not-warp-how-we-perceive-eye-contact",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-05T12:00:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/social-anxiety-might-not-warp-how-we-perceive-eye-contact/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new study challenges the idea that people with social anxiety consistently perceive strangers as staring at them. Fresh experiments show that the link between anxiety and warped gaze perception is weak and difficult to replicate.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}