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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
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211041621
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 | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QM Human anatomy Q Science > QP Physiology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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