Subliminal affective priming effect: Dissociated processes for intense versus normal facial expressions

Wang, Yanmei; Chen, Jie; Ku, Yixuan

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105674

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“…It is already a well-known fact that implicit factors such as micro-expressions can influence our mood and, as a consequence, mental stability (McDonald et al, 2018 ; Svetieva & Frank, 2016 ); therefore, it is possible that more factors other than the pleasant or unpleasant value of such implicit stimuli should be taken into account when analyzing its influence. The exploration of influence of four separate emotional factors on decision making, with clear results regarding the decisions themselves, also contributes to the field of research in subliminal affective priming paradigm, as most of the studies do not explore the factors of origin and subjective significance (Nava & Turati, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2021 ). The results of this study not only confirm the previous findings (Murphy & Zajonc, 1993 ; Winkielman & Cacioppo, 2001 ; Payne et al, 2005 ; Payne et al, 2010 ; Imbir & Jarymowicz, 2013 ), but also show new possible paths of research in this area.…”

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The Role of the Valence, Arousing Properties and Subjective Significance of Subliminally Presented Words in Affective Priming

Imbir

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Walkowiak

2021

J Psycholinguist Res

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In the verbal affective priming paradigm, the properties of a subliminally presented stimulus alter the interpretation of neutral target stimulus. In the experiment reported here, we tested the role of four factors (valence, origin, arousing properties and subjective significance) that determine the emotional reactions to words in affective priming. Subliminal masked presentation of words preceded the explicit task, which was assessment of neutral Quick Response code (QR code) stimuli. The QRs were codes for words representing personality traits. The results showed the effect of assimilation (negative words caused a negative interpretation, positive caused a positive interpretation) for words’ emotional valence and no effects for origin. Concerning arousal, we found a weak negative trend. In the case of subjective significance, a moderate positive trend was found. These results suggest that affective priming effects are susceptible not only to the valence of priming stimuli but also to activation factors.

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The Role of the Valence, Arousing Properties and Subjective Significance of Subliminally Presented Words in Affective Priming

Imbir

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Walkowiak

2021

J Psycholinguist Res

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“…Starting from this last evidence, several further studies exploited the same hybrid stimuli as those used by Laeng et al ( 2010 ) to investigate subliminal emotion processing, both at a behavioural (Prete et al 2014 , 2015b , 2018 ; c ) and electrophysiological level (Laeng et al 2013 ; Prete et al 2015a , 2019 ), confirming the implicit modulation of emotional processing through the LSF of the images (Neta et al 2021 ). The advantage of such a category of stimuli in the study of subliminal emotions is that they can be presented for a long time, thus avoiding the need for a very brief presentation (i.e., tachistoscopic paradigm; e.g., Wang et al 2021 ). They ensure that the emotional content remains under the level of awareness, given the possibility to indirectly measure the activation of the subcortical route.…”

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Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages

Prete,

Ceccato,

Bartolini

et al. 2024

Eur J Ageing

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Emotions are processed in the brain through a cortical route, responsible for detailed-conscious recognition and mainly based on image High Spatial Frequencies (HSF), and a subcortical route, responsible for coarse-unconscious processing and based on Low SF (LSF). However, little is known about possible changes in the functioning of the two routes in ageing. In the present go/no-go online task, 112 younger adults and 111 older adults were asked to press a button when a happy or angry face appeared (go) and to inhibit responses for neutral faces (no-go). Facial stimuli were presented unfiltered (broadband image), filtered at HSF and LSF, and hybrids (LSF of an emotional expression superimposed to the HSF of the same face with a neutral expression). All stimuli were also presented rotated on the vertical axis (upside-down) to investigate the global analysis of faces in ageing. Results showed an overall better performance of younger compared to older participants for all conditions except for hybrid stimuli. The expected face-inversion effect was confirmed in both age groups. We conclude that, besides an overall worsening of the perceptual skill with ageing, no specific impairment in the functioning of both the cortical and the subcortical route emerged.

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Subliminal affective priming effect: Dissociated processes for intense versus normal facial expressions

Cited by 2 publications

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The Role of the Valence, Arousing Properties and Subjective Significance of Subliminally Presented Words in Affective Priming

The Role of the Valence, Arousing Properties and Subjective Significance of Subliminally Presented Words in Affective Priming

Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages

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