期刊
EMOTION
卷 15, 期 2, 页码 223-231出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/emo0000054
关键词
fear; facial expressions; implicit association test; approach; psychopathy
资金
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R03 HD064906-01]
Despite communicating a negative emotion, fearful facial expressions predominantly elicit behavioral approach from perceivers. It has been hypothesized that this seemingly paradoxical effect may occur due to fearful expressions' resemblance to vulnerable, infantile faces. However, this hypothesis has not yet been tested. We used a combined approach-avoidance/implicit association test (IAT) to test this hypothesis. Participants completed an approach-avoidance lever task during which they responded to fearful and angry facial expressions as well as neutral infant and adult faces presented in an IAT format. Results demonstrated an implicit association between fearful facial expressions and infant faces and showed that both fearful expressions and infant faces primarily elicit behavioral approach. The dominance of approach responses to both fearful expressions and infant faces decreased as a function of psychopathic personality traits. Results suggest that the prosocial responses to fearful expressions observed in most individuals may stem from their associations with infantile faces.
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