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| Title |
Eye contact with neutral and smiling faces: effects on autonomic responses and frontal EEG asymmetry
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00122 |
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| Authors |
Laura M. Pönkänen, Jari K. Hietanen |
| Abstract |
In our previous studies we have shown that seeing another person "live" with a direct vs. averted gaze results in enhanced skin conductance responses (SCRs) indicating autonomic arousal and in greater relative left-sided frontal activity in the electroencephalography (asymmetry in the alpha-band power), associated with approach motivation. In our studies, however, the stimulus persons had a neutral expression. In real-life social interaction, eye contact is often associated with a smile, which is another signal of the sender's approach-related motivation. A smile could, therefore, enhance the affective-motivational responses to eye contact. In the present study, we investigated whether the facial expression (neutral vs. social smile) would modulate autonomic arousal and frontal EEG alpha-band asymmetry to seeing a direct vs. an averted gaze in faces presented "live" through a liquid crystal (LC) shutter. The results showed that the SCRs were greater for the direct than the averted gaze and that the effect of gaze direction was more pronounced for a smiling than a neutral face. However, in this study, gaze direction and facial expression did not affect the frontal EEG asymmetry, although, for gaze direction, we found a marginally significant correlation between the degree of an overall bias for asymmetric frontal activity and the degree to which direct gaze elicited stronger left-sided frontal activity than did averted gaze. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 2 | 2% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 115 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 20% |
| Researcher | 16 | 13% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 22 | 17% |
| Unknown | 18 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 59 | 46% |
| Neuroscience | 13 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 13 | 10% |
| Unknown | 27 | 21% |
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