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

Sad people avoid the eyes

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9620534
AutoresPeter J Hills (0000-0002-0097-9170, Anglia Ruskin University, autor de correspondencia), Michael B Lewis (0000-0002-5735-5318, Cardiff University)
Año2011
Volumen102
Número2
Páginas260-274
Fecha de publicación2011-05-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBritish Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1348/000712610x519314
PMID21492145
OpenAlexW1908788723
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas62

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

Audiology · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Eye contact · Face (sociological concept) · Face perception · Facial expression · Mood · Perception · Social perception · Communication · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Face Recognition and Perception · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology