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Sad people avoid the eyes or happy people focus on the eyes? Mood induction affects facial feature discrimination

2010; Wiley; Volume: 102; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1348/000712610x519314

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Peter J. Hills, Michael B. Lewis,

Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

British Journal of PsychologyVolume 102, Issue 2 p. 260-274 Sad people avoid the eyes or happy people focus on the eyes? Mood induction affects facial feature discrimination Peter J. Hills, Corresponding Author Peter J. Hills Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UKCorrespondence should be addressed to Dr Peter J. Hills, Department of Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University, Broad Street, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK (e-mail: [email protected]).Search for more papers by this authorMichael B. Lewis, Michael B. Lewis Cardiff University, UKSearch for more papers by this author Peter J. Hills, Corresponding Author Peter J. Hills Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UKCorrespondence should be addressed to Dr Peter J. Hills, Department of Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University, Broad Street, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK (e-mail: [email protected]).Search for more papers by this authorMichael B. Lewis, Michael B. Lewis Cardiff University, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 March 2011 https://doi.org/10.1348/000712610X519314Citations: 9Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Depressed people tend to avoid eye-contact in social situations and in experimental settings, whereas happy people actively seek eye-contact. We report an experiment in which participants made discriminations between faces that had either configural or featural changes made to the eyes, nose, or head shape. The results showed participants induced to be happy detected changes in eyes more often than participants induced to be sad, but failed to detect changes in other facial features. Sad-induced participants detected changes to the head shape but not the eyes. The results are interpreted in terms of differential use of features attended to by happy and sad participants, whereby happy people are more likely to attend to eyes during face perception than sad people. References Adams, R. B., Jr., Gordon, H. L., Baird, A. A., Ambady, N., & Kleck, R. E. (2003). Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear faces. Science, 300, 1536–1537. doi:10.1126/science.1082244 Adams, R. B., Jr., & Kleck, R. E. (2003). Perceived gaze direction and the processing of facial displays of emotion. 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