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Emotional expression modulates perceived gaze direction

Lobmaier, J S; Tiddeman, B P; Perrett, D I (2008). Emotional expression modulates perceived gaze direction. Emotion, 8(4):573-577.

Abstract

Gaze perception is an important social skill, as it portrays information about what another person is attending to. Gaze direction has been shown to affect interpretation of emotional expression. Here the authors investigate whether the emotional facial expression has a reciprocal influence on interpretation of gaze direction. In a forced-choice yes-no task, participants were asked to judge whether three faces expressing different emotions (anger, fear, happiness, and neutral) in different viewing angles were looking at them or not. Happy faces were more likely to be judged as looking at the observer than were angry, fearful, or neutral faces. Angry faces were more often judged as looking at the observer than were fearful and neutral expressions. These findings are discussed on the background of approach and avoidance orientation of emotions and of the self-referential positivity bias.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > General Psychology
Language:English
Date:2008
Deposited On:06 Jan 2010 10:24
Last Modified:03 Jun 2025 01:38
Publisher:American Psychological Association
ISSN:1528-3542
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.8.4.573
PubMed ID:18729587

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