Beyond Social Category Cues: Implicit Evaluations of Faces Based on Attractiveness, Character Information, and Minimal Group Membership Influence Emotion Perception

Facial expressions of positive emotions are recognized faster than negative expressions. This happy face advantage is larger for faces belonging to more positively evaluated social groups, for instance young or female faces. The current research demonstrated that this influence on emotion recognitio...

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Main Author: Lindeberg, Sofie Helena
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80868
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description Facial expressions of positive emotions are recognized faster than negative expressions. This happy face advantage is larger for faces belonging to more positively evaluated social groups, for instance young or female faces. The current research demonstrated that this influence on emotion recognition is not limited to facial cues signalling social categories. It is also found for attractive faces and faces recently associated with positive character information or belonging to an artificially created social ingroup.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-808682020-09-02T02:31:19Z Beyond Social Category Cues: Implicit Evaluations of Faces Based on Attractiveness, Character Information, and Minimal Group Membership Influence Emotion Perception Lindeberg, Sofie Helena Facial expressions of positive emotions are recognized faster than negative expressions. This happy face advantage is larger for faces belonging to more positively evaluated social groups, for instance young or female faces. The current research demonstrated that this influence on emotion recognition is not limited to facial cues signalling social categories. It is also found for attractive faces and faces recently associated with positive character information or belonging to an artificially created social ingroup. 2020 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80868 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Lindeberg, Sofie Helena
Beyond Social Category Cues: Implicit Evaluations of Faces Based on Attractiveness, Character Information, and Minimal Group Membership Influence Emotion Perception
title Beyond Social Category Cues: Implicit Evaluations of Faces Based on Attractiveness, Character Information, and Minimal Group Membership Influence Emotion Perception
title_full Beyond Social Category Cues: Implicit Evaluations of Faces Based on Attractiveness, Character Information, and Minimal Group Membership Influence Emotion Perception
title_fullStr Beyond Social Category Cues: Implicit Evaluations of Faces Based on Attractiveness, Character Information, and Minimal Group Membership Influence Emotion Perception
title_full_unstemmed Beyond Social Category Cues: Implicit Evaluations of Faces Based on Attractiveness, Character Information, and Minimal Group Membership Influence Emotion Perception
title_short Beyond Social Category Cues: Implicit Evaluations of Faces Based on Attractiveness, Character Information, and Minimal Group Membership Influence Emotion Perception
title_sort beyond social category cues: implicit evaluations of faces based on attractiveness, character information, and minimal group membership influence emotion perception
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80868