Attentional Bias in Humans Toward Human and Bonobo Expressions of Emotion.

ABSTRACT: Correctly recognizing and efficiently attending to emotional situations are highly valuable skills for social species such as humans and bonobos, humans' closest living relatives. In the current study, we investigated whether humans perceive a range of emotional situations differently when these involved other humans compared to bonobos. A large group of children and adults participated in an emotion perception task and rated scenes showing either bonobos or humans in situations depicting distressed or aggressive behavior, yawning, scratching, grooming, playing, sex scenes or neutral situations. A new group of people performed a dot-probe task to assess attentional biases toward these materials. The main finding is that humans perceive emotional scenes showing people similarly as emotional

SUBMITTER: Kret ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358346 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature