Detecting implicit cues of aggressiveness in male faces in revictimized female PTSD patients and healthy controls

Social Functioning in Individuals Affected by Childhood Maltreatment: Establishing a Research Agenda to Inform Interventions

“…Furthermore, it has been reported that sexually abused children, especially those exposed to intrafamiliar sexual abuse, have greater difficulties in mentalizing [74]. Finally, 244 DOI: 10.1159/000523667 revictimized women with a history of childhood sexual and physical abuse were found to perceive photographs of males with stronger implicit facial cues of aggressiveness as more attractive than revictimized women without such a history, identifying a social processing bias that could increase risk for future victimizing relationships [75].…”

“…The few studies that have assessed whether alterations in specific social processes are related to broader social problems in individuals affected by CM suggest that poor emotion regulation skills (including difficulties with emotional awareness [89]), maladaptive internalized schemas [90], and women's and their partner's accuracy in reading their partner's negative emotions [87] mediate the association between CM and relationship satisfaction. Research in this field needs to replicate these initial findings and explore whether other social processes known to Psychother Psychosom 2022;91:238-251 DOI: 10.1159/000523667 be affected by CM, such as negative interpretations of facial expressions, larger preferred interpersonal distances, negative judgments by others, or the perception of aggressive photographed men as attractive [43,51,68,69,75,[77][78][79], have a negative impact on relationship satisfaction and other aspects of social functioning known to be affected by CM (Fig. 1).…”

Overgeneralizing emotions: Facial width-to-height revisited.

“…They found that men with wider faces get allocated fewer resources in a decomposed economic game by observers than narrow-faced males, and that the relatively low shares that these men typically receive are countered by further reductions in cooperation and prosociality. Similar dynamics can be expected to unfold when women show reduced approach behavior towards men with high compared to low fWHR (Lieberz et al, 2018;Lieberz et al, 2017), when wider-faced men are ascribed to more anger and less humanness (Deska et al, 2018a(Deska et al, , 2018b, and when are more likely to be judged criminal liars (Matsumoto & Wang, 2021). Most dramatically, one study showed that wider-faced convicts received the death penalty more often than narrow-faced convicts (Wilson & Rule, 2015).…”