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    Different Faces in the Crowd: A Happiness Superiority Effect for Schematic Faces in Heterogeneous Backgrounds

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    Authors
    Craig, B.
    Becker, S.
    Lipp, Ottmar
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Craig, B. and Becker, S. and Lipp, O. 2014. Different Faces in the Crowd: A Happiness Superiority Effect for Schematic Faces in Heterogeneous Backgrounds. Emotion. 14 (4): pp. 794-803.
    Source Title
    Emotion
    DOI
    10.1037/a0036043
    ISSN
    1528-3542
    School
    School of Psychology
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    This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.

    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26384
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Recently, D.V. Becker, Anderson, Mortensen, Neufeld, and Neel (2011) proposed recommendations to avoid methodological confounds in visual search studies using emotional photographic faces. These confounds were argued to cause the frequently observed Anger Superiority Effect (ASE), the faster detection of angry than happy expressions, and conceal a true Happiness Superiority Effect (HSE). In Experiment 1, we applied these recommendations (for the first time) to visual search among schematic faces that previously had consistently yielded a robust ASE. Contrary to the prevailing literature, but consistent with D.V. Becker et al. (2011), we observed a HSE with schematic faces. The HSE with schematic faces was replicated in Experiments 2 and 3 using a similar method in discrimination tasks rather than fixed target searches. Experiment 4 isolated background heterogeneity as the key determinant leading to the HSE.

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