TY - JOUR
T1 - The mediating effects of facial expression on spatial interference between gaze direction and gaze location
AU - Jones, Steve
N1 - © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of General Psychology on 02/04/15, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00221309.2015.1009822
PY - 2015/4/3
Y1 - 2015/4/3
N2 - Gaze direction is an important social cue that interacts with facial expression. Cañadas and Lupiáñez (2012) reported a reverse-congruency effect such that identification of gaze direction was faster when a face was presented to the left but with the eyes directed to the right, or vice versa. In two experiments, this effect is replicated and then extended to explore the relationship between this effect and facial expression. Results show that the reverse-congruency effect is replicable with speeded gaze-direction identification, and that the effect is mediated by facial expression. The reverse-congruency effect is similar for happy and angry faces, but was not found for fearful faces. Findings are discussed in relation to the similarity of processing of incongruent gaze direction and the processing of direct gaze.
AB - Gaze direction is an important social cue that interacts with facial expression. Cañadas and Lupiáñez (2012) reported a reverse-congruency effect such that identification of gaze direction was faster when a face was presented to the left but with the eyes directed to the right, or vice versa. In two experiments, this effect is replicated and then extended to explore the relationship between this effect and facial expression. Results show that the reverse-congruency effect is replicable with speeded gaze-direction identification, and that the effect is mediated by facial expression. The reverse-congruency effect is similar for happy and angry faces, but was not found for fearful faces. Findings are discussed in relation to the similarity of processing of incongruent gaze direction and the processing of direct gaze.
KW - emotional expression
KW - eye contact
KW - face processing
KW - gaze direction
KW - reverse congruency effect
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U2 - 10.1080/00221309.2015.1009822
DO - 10.1080/00221309.2015.1009822
M3 - Article
C2 - 25832740
AN - SCOPUS:84926509618
SN - 0022-1309
VL - 142
SP - 106
EP - 117
JO - Journal of General Psychology
JF - Journal of General Psychology
IS - 2
ER -