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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Self-relevance is understudied in static face processing.
  • Understanding emotional face impact on attention, cognition, and affect is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate self-relevant primes' effect on processing emotional composite faces.
  • Examine how expectations influence attention and affective responses to emotional faces.

Main Methods:

  • Participants viewed emotional composite faces after receiving sentence primes.
  • Eye movements were recorded to track attention.
  • Cognitive and affective responses, including valence intensity and self-esteem, were measured.

Main Results:

  • Primes did not significantly guide attention.
  • Self-relevant primes impacted valence intensity and self-esteem ratings.
  • Negative primes led to lower self-esteem, modulated by facial features.
  • Expectation-face congruence intensified affective impact.

Conclusions:

  • Self-relevance plays a role in emotional face processing.
  • Expectations shape affective responses to emotional stimuli.
  • Facial features interact with self-relevance to influence judgments.