Journal
EMOTION
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 534-539Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.534
Keywords
emotion; attention; visual search; face processing; threat defection
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- Wellcome Trust [064290/Z/01/Z, 064290] Funding Source: Medline
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The research described in this article used a visual search task and demonstrated that the eye region alone can produce a threat superiority effect. Indeed, the magnitude of the threat superiority effect did not increase with whole-face, relative to eye-region-only, stimuli. The authors conclude that the configuration of the eyes provides a key signal of threat, which can mediate the search advantage for threat-related facial expressions.
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