Sad Facial Expressions Increase Choice Blindness
Previous studies have discovered a fascinating phenomenon known as choice blindness—individuals fail to detect mismatches between the face they choose and the face replaced by the experimenter. Although previous studies have reported a couple of factors that can modulate the magnitude of choice blin...
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| description | Previous studies have discovered a fascinating phenomenon known as choice blindness—individuals fail to detect mismatches between the face they choose and the face replaced by the experimenter. Although previous studies have reported a couple of factors that can modulate the magnitude of choice blindness, the potential effect of facial expression on choice blindness has not yet been explored. Using faces with sad and neutral expressions (Experiment 1) and faces with happy and neutral expressions (Experiment 2) in the classic choice blindness paradigm, the present study investigated the effects of facial expressions on choice blindness. The results showed that the detection rate was significantly lower on sad faces than neutral faces, whereas no significant difference was observed between happy faces and neutral faces. The exploratory analysis of verbal reports found that participants who reported less facial features for sad (as compared to neutral) expressions also tended to show a lower detection rate of sad (as compared to neutral) faces. These findings indicated that sad facial expressions increased choice blindness, which might have resulted from inhibition of further processing of the detailed facial features by the less attractive sad expressions (as compared to neutral expressions). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-14396c7acec745a4b94553b53b02f86c2022-12-22T00:48:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-01-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.02300302587Sad Facial Expressions Increase Choice BlindnessYajie Wang0Song Zhao1Zhijie Zhang2Wenfeng Feng3Department of Psychology, School of Education, Soochow University, Jiangsu, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, School of Education, Soochow University, Jiangsu, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, School of Education, Soochow University, Jiangsu, ChinaPrevious studies have discovered a fascinating phenomenon known as choice blindness—individuals fail to detect mismatches between the face they choose and the face replaced by the experimenter. Although previous studies have reported a couple of factors that can modulate the magnitude of choice blindness, the potential effect of facial expression on choice blindness has not yet been explored. Using faces with sad and neutral expressions (Experiment 1) and faces with happy and neutral expressions (Experiment 2) in the classic choice blindness paradigm, the present study investigated the effects of facial expressions on choice blindness. The results showed that the detection rate was significantly lower on sad faces than neutral faces, whereas no significant difference was observed between happy faces and neutral faces. The exploratory analysis of verbal reports found that participants who reported less facial features for sad (as compared to neutral) expressions also tended to show a lower detection rate of sad (as compared to neutral) faces. These findings indicated that sad facial expressions increased choice blindness, which might have resulted from inhibition of further processing of the detailed facial features by the less attractive sad expressions (as compared to neutral expressions).http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02300/fullchoice blindnessfacial expressionssad faceshappy facesneutral faces |
| spellingShingle | Yajie Wang Song Zhao Zhijie Zhang Wenfeng Feng Sad Facial Expressions Increase Choice Blindness Frontiers in Psychology choice blindness facial expressions sad faces happy faces neutral faces |
| title | Sad Facial Expressions Increase Choice Blindness |
| title_full | Sad Facial Expressions Increase Choice Blindness |
| title_fullStr | Sad Facial Expressions Increase Choice Blindness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sad Facial Expressions Increase Choice Blindness |
| title_short | Sad Facial Expressions Increase Choice Blindness |
| title_sort | sad facial expressions increase choice blindness |
| topic | choice blindness facial expressions sad faces happy faces neutral faces |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02300/full |
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