The world smiles at me: Self-referential positivity bias when interpreting direction of attention

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 334-341

  Lobmaier, Janek S ^a,b   Perrett, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotional expression; Eye gaze; Social attention; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REFERENTIAL POSITIVITY BIAS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79551591931     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931003794557     Document Type: Article

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