Fox Elaine, Damjanovic Ljubica
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom.
Emotion. 2006 Aug;6(3):534-9. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.534.
The research described in this article used a visual search task and demonstrated that the eye region alone can produce a threat superiority effect. Indeed, the magnitude of the threat superiority effect did not increase with whole-face, relative to eye-region-only, stimuli. The authors conclude that the configuration of the eyes provides a key signal of threat, which can mediate the search advantage for threat-related facial expressions.
本文所述的研究使用了视觉搜索任务，并证明仅眼部区域就能产生威胁优势效应。事实上，相对于仅使用眼部区域的刺激，全脸刺激下威胁优势效应的强度并未增加。作者得出结论，眼睛的形态提供了一个关键的威胁信号，它可以介导对与威胁相关面部表情的搜索优势。
