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Enhanced subliminal emotional responses to dynamic facial expressions

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Title
Enhanced subliminal emotional responses to dynamic facial expressions
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Frontiers in Psychology, September 2014
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00994
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Wataru Sato, Yasutaka Kubota, Motomi Toichi

Abstract

Emotional processing without conscious awareness plays an important role in human social interaction. Several behavioral studies reported that subliminal presentation of photographs of emotional facial expressions induces unconscious emotional processing. However, it was difficult to elicit strong and robust effects using this method. We hypothesized that dynamic presentations of facial expressions would enhance subliminal emotional effects and tested this hypothesis with two experiments. Fearful or happy facial expressions were presented dynamically or statically in either the left or the right visual field for 20 (Experiment 1) and 30 (Experiment 2) ms. Nonsense target ideographs were then presented, and participants reported their preference for them. The results consistently showed that dynamic presentations of emotional facial expressions induced more evident emotional biases toward subsequent targets than did static ones. These results indicate that dynamic presentations of emotional facial expressions induce more evident unconscious emotional processing.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 2 3%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Hungary 1 2%
Unknown 62 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 12%
Researcher 7 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Other 19 29%
Unknown 7 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 41 62%
Neuroscience 6 9%
Unspecified 3 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 5%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 7 11%
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#14,198,795
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