Facial Expression

The average facial expression of a crowd influences impressions of individual expressions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Volume 44, Issue 2, 311-319 Abstract “People can accurately assess the “mood of a crowd” by rapidly extracting the average intensity of all the individual expressions, when the crowd consists of a set of faces comprising different expressions of the same individual. Here, we investigate the […]

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Attentional capture by irrelevant emotional distractor faces is contingent on implicit attentional settings

Cognition and Emotion

Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 303-314 Abstract “Although expressions of facial emotion hold a special status in attention relative to other complex objects, whether they summon our attention automatically and against our intentions remains a debated issue. Studies supporting the strong view that attentional capture by facial expressions of emotion is entirely

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Differences in holistic processing do not explain cultural differences in the recognition of facial expression

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2445-2459 Abstract “The aim of this study was to investigate the causes of the own-race advantage in facial expression perception. In Experiment 1, we investigated Western Caucasian and Chinese participants’ perception and categorization of facial expressions of six basic emotions that included two pairs

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