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To determine whether affective facial expressions undergo automatic and involuntary semantic processing by testing for cross-modal interference during a word evaluation task.

November 1, 1998Cognition & EmotionOpen Access

Judging Words at Face Value: Interference in a Word Processing Task Reveals Automatic Processing of Affective Facial Expressions

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GSGeorg StenbergKristianstad University SWSusanne WikingUiT The Arctic University of Norway MDMats DahlLund University

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Experimental study demonstrates facial emotion interference during word evaluation tasks in human subjects, indicating involuntary semantic processing of affective facial expressions.

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To determine whether affective facial expressions undergo automatic and involuntary semantic processing by testing for cross-modal interference during a word evaluation task.
Conducted three behavioral experiments using compound stimuli with positive and negative words superimposed on pictures of affective faces.
Instructed participants to evaluate the affective valence of the target words while attempting to disregard the background facial expressions.
Negative words produced overall longer response latencies than positive words, reflecting greater cognitive resource allocation toward negative stimuli.
Affective faces moderated word evaluation speeds: negative word responses were facilitated when paired with congruent negative expressions and inhibited when paired with incongruent positive expressions.

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Stenberg et al. (1998) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a11caff81e48c4370dcdcf4 https://doi.org/10.1080/026999398379420

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Experimental study demonstrates facial emotion interference during word evaluation tasks in human subjects, indicating involuntary semantic processing of affective facial expressions.

Judging Words at Face Value: Interference in a Word Processing Task Reveals Automatic Processing of Affective Facial Expressions

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Judging Words at Face Value: Interference in a Word Processing Task Reveals Automatic Processing of Affective Facial Expressions

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