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Affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect”

The strength of the affective priming effect is influenced by various factors, including the duration of the prime. Surprisingly, short-duration primes that are around the threshold for conscious awareness typically result in stronger effects compared to long-duration primes. The misattribution effe...

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Autor principal: Brunet, Nicolas M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10249471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303898
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1146107
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description The strength of the affective priming effect is influenced by various factors, including the duration of the prime. Surprisingly, short-duration primes that are around the threshold for conscious awareness typically result in stronger effects compared to long-duration primes. The misattribution effect theory suggest that subliminal primes do not provide sufficient cognitive processing time for the affective feeling to be attributed to the prime. Instead, the neutral target being evaluated is credited for the affective experience. In everyday social interactions, we shift our gaze from one face to another, typically contemplating each face for only a few seconds. It is reasonable to assume that no affective priming takes place during such interactions. To investigate whether this is indeed the case, participants were asked to rate the valence of faces displayed one by one. Each face image simultaneously served as both a target (primed by the previous trial) and a prime (for the next trial). Depending on the participant’s response time, images were typically displayed for about 1–2 s. As predicted by the misattribution effect theory, neutral targets were not affected by positive affective priming. However, non-neutral targets showed a robust priming effect, with emotional faces being perceived as even more negative or positive when the previously seen face was emotionally congruent. These results suggest that a “correct attribution effect” modulates how we perceive faces, continuously impacting our social interactions. Given the importance of faces in social communication, these findings have wide-ranging implications.
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spelling pubmed-102494712023-06-09 Affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect” Brunet, Nicolas M. Front Psychol Psychology The strength of the affective priming effect is influenced by various factors, including the duration of the prime. Surprisingly, short-duration primes that are around the threshold for conscious awareness typically result in stronger effects compared to long-duration primes. The misattribution effect theory suggest that subliminal primes do not provide sufficient cognitive processing time for the affective feeling to be attributed to the prime. Instead, the neutral target being evaluated is credited for the affective experience. In everyday social interactions, we shift our gaze from one face to another, typically contemplating each face for only a few seconds. It is reasonable to assume that no affective priming takes place during such interactions. To investigate whether this is indeed the case, participants were asked to rate the valence of faces displayed one by one. Each face image simultaneously served as both a target (primed by the previous trial) and a prime (for the next trial). Depending on the participant’s response time, images were typically displayed for about 1–2 s. As predicted by the misattribution effect theory, neutral targets were not affected by positive affective priming. However, non-neutral targets showed a robust priming effect, with emotional faces being perceived as even more negative or positive when the previously seen face was emotionally congruent. These results suggest that a “correct attribution effect” modulates how we perceive faces, continuously impacting our social interactions. Given the importance of faces in social communication, these findings have wide-ranging implications. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10249471/ /pubmed/37303898 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1146107 Text en Copyright © 2023 Brunet. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect”
title Affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect”
title_full Affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect”
title_fullStr Affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect”
title_full_unstemmed Affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect”
title_short Affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect”
title_sort affective evaluation of consciously perceived emotional faces reveals a “correct attribution effect”
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10249471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303898
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1146107
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