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EXPRESS: Do facially disfiguring features influence attention and perception of faces? Evidence from an antisaccade task

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Boutsen, Luc, Pearson, Nathan and Jüttner, Martin (2022) EXPRESS: Do facially disfiguring features influence attention and perception of faces? Evidence from an antisaccade task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75 (5). pp. 830-840. doi:10.1177/17470218211041621 ISSN 1747-0218.

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Abstract

Facial disfigurements can influence how observers attend to and interact with the person, leading to disease-avoidance behaviour and emotions (disgust, threat, fear for contagion). However, it is unclear whether this behaviour is reflected in the effect of the facial stigma on attention and perceptual encoding of facial information. We addressed this question by measuring, in a mixed antisaccade task, observers’ speed and accuracy of orienting of visual attention towards or away from peripherally presented upright and inverted unfamiliar faces that had either a realistic looking disease-signalling feature (a skin discoloration), a non-disease-signalling control feature, or no added feature. The presence of a disfiguring or control feature did not influence the orienting of attention (in terms of saccadic latency) towards upright faces, suggesting that avoidance responses towards facial stigma do not occur during covert attention. However, disfiguring and control features signficantly reduced the effect of face inversion on saccadic latency, thus suggesting an impact on the holistic processing of facial information. The implications of these findings for the encoding and appraisal of of facial disfigurements are discussed.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Q Science > QM Human anatomy
Q Science > QP Physiology
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Face perception , Saccadic eye movements , Face -- Abnormalities
Journal or Publication Title: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 1747-0218
Official Date: 1 May 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
1 May 2022Published
13 August 2021Available
29 July 2021Accepted
Volume: 75
Number: 5
Page Range: pp. 830-840
DOI: 10.1177/17470218211041621
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): Posted ahead of print. Boutsen, Luc, Pearson, Nathan and Jüttner, Martin (2021) Do facially disfiguring features influence attention and perception of faces? Evidence from an antisaccade task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Copyright 2021 SAGE Publications. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/qjp Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses.
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 2 August 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 3 August 2021
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