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    Visual search for schematic emotional faces: Angry faces are more than crosses

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    Authors
    Dickins, D.
    Lipp, Ottmar
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Dickins, D. and Lipp, O. 2014. Visual search for schematic emotional faces: Angry faces are more than crosses. Cognition and Emotion. 28 (1): pp. 98-114.
    Source Title
    Cognition and Emotion
    DOI
    10.1080/02699931.2013.809331
    ISSN
    1464-0600
    School
    School of Psychology
    Remarks

    This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Cognition and Emotion, 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/">http://www.tandfonline.com/</a>. <a href="http://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.809331">http://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.809331</a>

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14355
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Recent studies of the face in the crowd effect, the faster detection of angry than of happy faces in visual search, suggest that for schematic faces it reflects on perceptual features like inward pointing lines rather than on emotional expressions. Removing a potential confound, Experiments 12 replicate the preferential detection of stimuli with inward pointing lines, but Experiment 2a indicates that a surrounding circle is required for the effect to emerge. Experiments 37 failed to find evidence for faster detection of schematic faces comprising only the elements critical for the faster detection of angry faces according to a low level visual feature account, inward tilted brows and upturned mouth. Faster detection of anger was evident if eyes or eyes and noses were added, but only if their placement was consistent with the first order relations among these elements in a human face. Drawing the critical elements in thicker, higher contrast lines also led to an anger advantage, but this was smaller than that seen for the complete faces. The present results suggest that, while able to support faster target detection, a prevalence of inward pointing lines is not sufficient to explain the detection advantage of angry schematic faces.

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