No evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes
The present study investigated whether facial expressions of emotion presented outside consciousness awareness will elicit evaluative responses as assessed in affective priming. Participants were asked to evaluate pleasant and unpleasant target words that were preceded by masked or unmasked schemati...
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| author | Andrews, V. Lipp, Ottmar Mallan, K. König, S. |
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| description | The present study investigated whether facial expressions of emotion presented outside consciousness awareness will elicit evaluative responses as assessed in affective priming. Participants were asked to evaluate pleasant and unpleasant target words that were preceded by masked or unmasked schematic (Experiment 1) or photographic faces (Experiments 1 and 2) with happy or angry expressions. They were either required to perform the target evaluation only or to perform the target evaluation and to name the emotion expressed by the face prime. Prime-target interval was 300 ms in Experiment 1 and 80 ms in Experiment 2. Naming performance confirmed the effectiveness of the masking procedure. Affective priming was evident after unmasked primes in tasks that required naming of the facial expressions for schematic and photographic faces and after unmasked primes in tasks that did not require naming for photographic faces. No affective priming was found after masked primes. The present study failed to provide evidence for affective priming with masked face primes, however, it indicates that voluntary attention to the primes enhances affective priming. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-263802017-09-13T15:26:25Z No evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes Andrews, V. Lipp, Ottmar Mallan, K. König, S. The present study investigated whether facial expressions of emotion presented outside consciousness awareness will elicit evaluative responses as assessed in affective priming. Participants were asked to evaluate pleasant and unpleasant target words that were preceded by masked or unmasked schematic (Experiment 1) or photographic faces (Experiments 1 and 2) with happy or angry expressions. They were either required to perform the target evaluation only or to perform the target evaluation and to name the emotion expressed by the face prime. Prime-target interval was 300 ms in Experiment 1 and 80 ms in Experiment 2. Naming performance confirmed the effectiveness of the masking procedure. Affective priming was evident after unmasked primes in tasks that required naming of the facial expressions for schematic and photographic faces and after unmasked primes in tasks that did not require naming for photographic faces. No affective priming was found after masked primes. The present study failed to provide evidence for affective priming with masked face primes, however, it indicates that voluntary attention to the primes enhances affective priming. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26380 10.1007/s11031-010-9196-3 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Andrews, V. Lipp, Ottmar Mallan, K. König, S. No evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes |
| title | No evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes |
| title_full | No evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes |
| title_fullStr | No evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes |
| title_full_unstemmed | No evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes |
| title_short | No evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes |
| title_sort | no evidence for subliminal affective priming with emotional facial expression primes |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26380 |