Naslov
Interpersonal effects of tears on low-level cognitive processes

Autori
Švegar, Domagoj

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Mini-symposium on crying

Mjesto i datum
Tilburg, Nizozemska, 04.12.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
tears ; attention ; perception ; sex recognition

Sažetak
In our pioneering study concerning human crying we investigated how various facial emotional expressions and tears affect the speed of sex recognition. In several experiments, participants were presented with photographs of human facial expressions and asked to determine if these faces belong to male or female models. Analyses of accuracy and speed of responding revealed that participants respond slow and make lot of errors only in condition of female models expressing anger. Tears had no effects on performance in such tasks, except in one of the experiments, but we failed to replicate that finding. Therefore, we have now constructed another study in order to investigate if exposure to tears affect the performance in visual search tasks and modify attentional focus of the observers. In the beginning of the experimental session we intend to assess participants baseline performance in global-local letter tasks and visual search tasks and then prime them with photographs of human faces in five between-subjects conditions: crying, happiness, fear, babies and crying with removed tears. We presume that exposure to tears may narrow attentional focus and improve performance in visual search tasks.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

Napomena
Istraživanje je provedeno u sklopu projekta "Ličnost, emocije i socijalni procesi kao odrednice zdravstvenih ishoda", kojeg financira Sveučilište u Rijeci.

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