How social exclusion modulates social information processing: A behavioural dissociation between facial expressions and gaze direction.

ABSTRACT: Social exclusion is a painful experience that is felt as a threat to the human need to belong and can lead to increased aggressive and anti-social behaviours, and results in emotional and cognitive numbness. Excluded individuals also seem to show an automatic tuning to positivity: they tend to increase their selective attention towards social acceptance signals. Despite these effects known in the literature, the consequences of social exclusion on social information processing still need to be explored in depth. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of social exclusion on processing two features that are strictly bound in the appraisal of the meaning of facial expressions: gaze direction and emotional expression. In two experiments (N = 60, N = 45), participants were asked t

SUBMITTER: Bossi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5884539 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature