Priming effects for affective vs. neutral faces

Affective and Neutral Tasks (faces with negative or neutral content, with different lighting and orientation) requiring reaction time judgments of poser identity were administered to 32 participants. Speed and accuracy were better for the Affective than Neutral Task, consistent with literature sugge...

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Published in:Brain and cognition 2005-12, Vol.59 (3), p.322-329
Main Authors: Burton, Leslie A., Rabin, Laura, Wyatt, Gwinne, Frohlich, Jonathan, Vardy, Susan Bernstein, Dimitri, Diana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Affect - physiology
Affective Behavior
Affectivity. Emotion
Biological and medical sciences
Cues
Emotional Response
Evaluation Methods
Facial Expression
Fear
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender Differences
Humans
Male
Mental Recall - physiology
Nonverbal Communication
Pain
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Personality. Affectivity
Photic Stimulation
Psychological Patterns
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Reaction Time - physiology
Reference Values
Sex Factors
Visual Perception
Visual Stimuli
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Summary:Affective and Neutral Tasks (faces with negative or neutral content, with different lighting and orientation) requiring reaction time judgments of poser identity were administered to 32 participants. Speed and accuracy were better for the Affective than Neutral Task, consistent with literature suggesting facilitation of performance by affective content. Priming effects were significant for the Affective but not Neutral Task. An Explicit Post-Test indicated no conscious knowledge of the stimulus frequency that was associated with performance facilitation. Faster performance by female vs. male participants, and differential speeds and susceptibility to priming of different emotions were also found. Anger and shock were responded to most rapidly and accurately in several conditions, showed no gender differences, and showed significant priming for both RT and accuracy. Fear and pain were responded to least accurately, were associated with faster female than male reaction time, and the accuracy data showed a kind of reverse priming.
ISSN:0278-2626
1090-2147
DOI:10.1016/j.bandc.2005.05.006