APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Sensitivity to Sick Faces: An Adaptation for Disease Avoidance
- Tiffany Leung
University of Miami - Sarah Maylott
University of Utah - Guangyu Zeng
University of Miami - Diana Nascimben
University of Miami - Krisztina Jakobsen
James Madison University - Elizabeth Simpson
University of Miami
Abstract
We tested adults’ sensitivity to sick and healthy faces in three studies. Adults rated sick faces as more sick, dangerous, and avoidable, looked longer at healthy faces, and had greater pupil dilation to sick faces. Humans may detect subtle signals of legitimate sickness in faces, reflected behaviorally and physiologically.
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