Abstract Evaluation is a fundamental concept in psychological science. Limitations of self-
report measures of evaluation led to an explosion of research on implicit measures of …

We describe the use of behavioral, neuroimaging, and genetic methods to examine
individual differences in cognition and affect, guided by three criteria:(1) relevance to human …

Rapid responses to emotional words play a crucial role in social communication. This study
employed event-related potentials to examine the time course of neural dynamics involved …

Does contextual affective information influence the processing of facial expressions already
at the relatively early stages of face processing? We measured event-related brain …

Previous studies examining event-related potentials and evaluative priming have been
mixed; some find evidence that evaluative priming influences the N400, whereas others find …

Research in psychology related to the conceptualization of empathy has been on the rise in
the last decades. However, we argue that there is still space for further research to help …

The influence of explicit evaluative processes on the contextual integration of facial
expressions of emotion was studied in a procedure that required the participants to judge …

Affective priming effects denote faster responses when two successively presented affective
stimuli match in valence than when they mismatch. Two mechanisms have been proposed …

Few studies have explored the specificities of contextual modulations of the processing of
facial expressions at a neuronal level. This study fills this gap by employing an original …

Interpersonal communication involves the processing of multimodal emotional cues,
particularly facial expressions (visual modality) and emotional speech prosody (auditory …