ArticleCognition & emotion2017
All in the first glance: first fixation predicts individual differences in valence bias.
Article in Cognition & emotion, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- I have my eye on the emotion: a review of eye-tracking studies exploring processing of emotional facial expressions.Psychological research · 2026Pooled it
- In the face of ambiguity: intrinsic brain organization in development predicts one's bias toward positivity or negativity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Can Perceivers Differentiate Intense Facial Expressions? Eye Movement Patterns.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Resting-state functional network segregation of the default mode network predicts valence bias across the lifespan.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Drift-diffusion modeling reveals that masked faces are preconceived as unfriendly.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Emotion category-modulated interpretation bias in perceiving ambiguous facial expressions.Perception · 2023Article
- Face masks influence emotion judgments of facial expressions: a drift-diffusion model.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Face coverings differentially alter valence judgments of emotional expressions.Basic and applied social psychology · 2023Article
- A review of eye tracking research on video-based learning.Education and information technologies · 2023Article
- Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.PloS one · 2021Article
- Through the eyes of the beholder: Simulated eye-movement experience ("SEE") modulates valence bias in response to emotional ambiguity.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Surprised expressions are interpreted as negative by some people, and as positive by others. When compared to fearful expressions, which are consistently rated as negative, surprise and fear share similar morphological structures (e.g. widened eyes), but these similarities are primarily in the upper part of the face (eyes). We hypothesised, then, that individuals would be more likely to interpret surprise positively when fixating faster to the lower part of the face (mouth). Participants rated surprised and fearful faces as either positive or negative while eye movements were recorded. Positive ratings of surprise were associated with longer fixation on the mouth than negative ratings. There were also individual differences in fixation patterns, with individuals who fixated the mouth earlier exhibiting increased positive ratings. These findings suggest that there are meaningful individual differences in how people process faces.
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