Judging the mood of the crowd: attention is focused on happy faces

Previous research on valence biases in face perception revealed inconsistent findings either proposing angry or happy faces to be detected more efficiently. We argue that the typical experimental task in this field, the face-in-the-crowd (FiC) paradigm, leads to ambiguous results. In the present pap...

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Hauptverfasser: Mertens, Alica (VerfasserIn) , Voß, Andreas (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Sep 2019
In: Emotion
Year: 2019, Jahrgang: 19, Heft: 6, Pages: 1044-1059
ISSN:1931-1516
DOI:10.1037/emo0000507
Online-Zugang:Verlag: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000507
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Verfasserangaben:Alica Bucher, Andreas Voss

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