Seeing What You Feel: Affect Drives Visual Perception of Structurally Neutral Faces

摘要: Affective realism, the phenomenon whereby affect is integrated into an individual’s experience of world, a normal consequence how brain processes sensory information from external world in context sensations body. In present investigation, we provided compelling empirical evidence that affective realism involves changes visual perception (i.e., participants see neutral stimuli). two studies, used interocular suppression technique, continuous flash suppression, to images outside participants’ conscious awareness. We demonstrated seen faces are perceived as more smiling when paired with unseen affectively positive stimuli. Study 2 also scowling negative These findings have implications for real-world situations and challenge beliefs distinct psychological can be separated...