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31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Discriminating Happy or Sad Faces in a Visual Search Paradigm Reveals Possible Pre-Attentive Effects for Individuals with Negative Affect

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Cognitive

  • Rita Yazici
    Lakehead University
  • Dana Dupuis
    Lakehead University
  • Drue Wood
    Lakehead University
  • Lilja Lahtinen
    Lakehead University
  • Carolyn Sutyor
    Lakehead University
  • Josephine Tan
    Lakehead University
  • Michael Wesner
    Lakehead University

Abstract

Using a visual search paradigm, we investigated the role exogenous versus endogenous attention plays in differentiating happy and sad faces for individuals experiencing high (H-) medium (M-) and low (L-) general negative affect. Instead of an attentional bias, our response times suggest a pre-attentive set size effect for H-participants.

Cognitive Processes

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