The impact of facial emotional expressions on behavioral tendencies in women and men.

摘要: Emotional faces communicate both the emotional state and behavioral intentions of an individual. They also activate tendencies in perceiver, namely approach or avoidance. Here, we compared more automatic motor to conscious rating responses happy, sad, angry disgusted a healthy student sample. Happiness was associated with anger However, response sadness disgust were complex. Sadness produced but withdrawal, probably influenced by interpersonal relations personality. Disgust elicited withdrawal task whereas no significant tendency emerged joystick task, driven expression style. Based on our results it is highly relevant further explore actual reactions expressions differentiate between controlled processes since are used various kinds studies. Moreover, highlight importance gender poser effects when applying as stimuli.