Pretty crowds are happy crowds: the influence of attractiveness on mood perception

Empirical findings predominantly support a happiness superiority effect in visual search and emotion categorization paradigms and reveal that social cues, like sex and race, moderate this advantage. A more recent study showed that the facial attribute attractiveness also influences the accuracy and...

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Main Authors: Mertens, Alica (Author) , Hepp, Johanna (Author) , Voß, Andreas (Author) , Hische, Amelie (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Psychological research
Year: 2021, Volume: 85, Issue: 5, Pages: 1823-1836
ISSN:1430-2772
DOI:10.1007/s00426-020-01360-x
Online Access:Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01360-x
Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-020-01360-x
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Author Notes:Alica Mertens, Johanna Hepp, Andreas Voss, Amelie Hische

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