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dc.contributor.authorÅsli, Ole
dc.contributor.authorMichalsen, Henriette
dc.contributor.authorØvervoll, Morten
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-11T12:03:50Z
dc.date.available2017-11-11T12:03:50Z
dc.date.issued2017-01
dc.description.abstractAlthough faces are often included in the broad category of emotional visual stimuli, the affective impact of different facial expressions is not well documented. The present experiment investigated startle electromyographic responses to pictures of neutral, happy, angry, and fearful facial expressions, with a frontal face direction (directed) and at a 45 angle to the left (averted). Results showed that emotional facial expressions interact with face direction to produce startle potentiation: Greater responses were found for angry expressions, compared with fear and neutrality, with directed faces. When faces were averted, fear and neutrality produced larger responses compared with anger and happiness. These results are in line with the notion that startle is potentiated to stimuli signaling threat. That is, a forward directed angry face may signal a threat toward the observer, and a fearful face directed to the side may signal a possible threat in the environment.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517694396> https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517694396 </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationÅsli O, Michalsen H, Øvervoll M. In Your Face: Startle to Emotional Facial Expressions Depends on Face Direction. i-Perception. 2017;8(1):1-13en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1510139
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/2041669517694396
dc.identifier.issn2041-6695
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/11736
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.relation.journali-Perception
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Psykologi: 260::Personlighetspsykologi: 264en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Psychology: 260::Personality psychology: 264en_US
dc.titleIn Your Face: Startle to Emotional Facial Expressions Depends on Face Direction.en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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