Preference and Familiarity for Emotional Face

It is commonly assumed that happy face should be preferred over sad face, and yet tragic dramas and sad songs are popular and seem better memorized. Related studies showed that sad faces are perceived as more familiar than happy faces (Sergerie et al., 2007), and familiar faces are preferred over no...

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Main Authors: Hsin-I Liao, Shinsuke Shimojo, Su-Ling Yeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-05-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/ic245