Effects of emotional content on social inhibition of gaze in live social and non-social situations.

ABSTRACT: In real-life interactions, it is crucial that humans adequately respond to others' emotional expressions. Emotion perception so far has mainly been studied in highly controlled laboratory tasks. However, recent research suggests that attention and gaze behaviour significantly differ between watching a person on a controlled laboratory screen compared to in real world interactions. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate effects of emotional expression on participants' gaze in social and non-social situations. We compared looking behaviour towards a confederate showing positive, neutral or negative facial expressions between live social and non-social waiting room situations. Participants looked more often and longer to the confederate on the screen, than when physically present i

SUBMITTER: Pasqualette L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465544 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature