Most past research on emotion recognition has used photographs of posed expressions
intended to depict the apex of the emotional display. Although these studies have provided …

This review summarizes human perception and processing of face and gaze signals. Face
and gaze signals are important means of non-verbal social communication. The review …

Survival prompts organisms to prepare adaptive behavior in response to environmental and
social threat. However, what are the specific features of the appearance of a conspecific that …

Only a subset of visual signals give rise to a conscious percept. Threat signals, such as
fearful faces, are particularly salient to human vision. Research suggests that fearful faces …

Arrows and gaze stimuli lead to opposite spatial congruency effects. While standard
congruency effects are observed for arrows (faster responses for congruent conditions) …

A social-functional approach to face processing comes with a number of assumptions. First,
given that humans possess limited cognitive resources, it assumes that we naturally allocate …

The face conveys a rich source of non-verbal information used during social communication.
While research has revealed how specific facial channels such as emotional expression are …

Human faces convey essential information for understanding others' mental states and
intentions. The importance of faces in social interaction has prompted suggestions that some …

Fearful faces both capture our attention and hold it. However, little is known about the time-
course for the capture and hold of spatial attention by fearful, and other emotional, faces. In …

Eye contact with another person (social gaze) can evoke emotions, produce autonomic
arousal, and influence behavior. Gaze cues can be evocative even when presented in static …