Angry Facial Expressions Hamper Subsequent Target Identification
Angry Facial Expressions Hamper Subsequent Target Identification
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DOI：
10.1037/a0019353
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Martens, Sander
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作者：
de Jong, Peter J.;Koster, Ernst H. W.;Martens, Sander
有相当多的证据表明，人们已经准备好监测社会上不赞成的信号。到目前为止，关于选择性注意的研究主要集中在空间域，而识别社会威胁信息的时间后果只得到很少的关注。因此，本研究关注时间注意成本，并考察情绪表达的呈现如何影响随后的任务相关信息识别。高（n = 30）和低（n = 31）社会焦虑的妇女暴露于双目标快速串行视觉呈现（RSVP）的范例。情绪面孔（中性、高兴、愤怒）作为第一目标（T1），中性字母刺激（p、q、d、B）作为第二目标（T2）。不考虑社交焦虑，当愤怒的面孔被呈现为T1时，注意瞬脱相对较大。这种对愤怒面孔的明显优先处理与进化模型是一致的，强调了特别关注社会威胁的潜在信号的重要性。
There is considerable evidence indicating that people are primed to monitor social signals of disapproval. Thus far, studies on selective attention have concentrated predominantly on the spatial domain, whereas the temporal consequences of identifying socially threatening information have received only scant attention. Therefore, this study focused on temporal attention costs and examined how the presentation of emotional expressions affects subsequent identification of task-relevant information. High (n = 30) and low (n = 31) socially anxious women were exposed to a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm. Emotional faces (neutral, happy, angry) were presented as the first target (T1) and neutral letter stimuli (p, q, d, b) as the second target (T2). Irrespective of social anxiety, the attentional blink was relatively large when angry faces were presented as T1. This apparent prioritized processing of angry faces is consistent with evolutionary models, stressing the importance of being especially attentive to potential signals of social threat.