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Attentional capture by angry faces is conditional on group membership and social status

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Preferential selection of faces expressing negative emotions (e.g., fear or anger) has been repeatedly reported in the literature and is often taken as evidence that the selection of threat-related stimuli is a fully automatic process. However, appraisal theories of emotion predict that emotional attention should rather be conditional on the appraised relevance of the emotional stimulus according to the current concerns of individuals. In two studies, we investigated whether attentional capture by angry face cues in a dot-probe task could be conditional on their social relevance for the observer. Rather than being fully automatic, attentional capture by angry faces appeared to be conditional to the group-membership of the faces (i.e., preferential capture by out-group angry faces), as well as to the social status of the observer (i.e., preferential capture by angry faces among low status individuals). These new results support the social conditionality hypothesis of emotional attention.
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hal-03002062 , version 1 (12-11-2020)

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Quentin Victeur, Alice Normand, Delphine Martinot, Michaël Berthon, Pascal Huguet, et al.. Attentional capture by angry faces is conditional on group membership and social status. 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2019), Sep 2019, Tenerife, Spain. ⟨hal-03002062⟩
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