Does Exposure to Hostile Environments Predict Enhanced Emotion Detection?

We used a Face-in-the-Crowd task to examine whether hostile environments predict enhanced detection of anger, and whether such enhanced cognition occurs for a different negative emotion, sadness, as well. We conducted a well-powered, preregistered study in 100 college students and 100 individuals fr...

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Main Authors: Willem E. Frankenhuis, Gijsbert Bijlstra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2018-05-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/127