Paying attention to faces is of special interest for humans as well as for scientific research.
The experimental manipulation of facial information offers an ecologically valid approach to …

Affective, emotional, and physiological states (AFFECT) detection and recognition by
capturing human signals is a fast-growing area, which has been applied across numerous …

Social interactions are dynamic, context-dependent, and reciprocal events that influence
prospective strategies and require constant practice and adaptation. This complexity of …

Under threat, the combinations of fearful display and gaze orientation emitted by others can
provide crucial information about the presence and location of the danger, as well as …

As relevance theory shows, the success of communication crucially depends on the right
contextual information being highly accessible at the right time. Thus it is not sufficient that …

Emotional regulation is important for mental health and behavioral regulation. A relevant
precursor to emotional regulation may involve identification of one's emotions. Here, we …

Emotional memories are better remembered than neutral ones, but the mechanisms leading
to this memory bias are not well understood in humans yet. Based on animal research, it is …

Looking at pictures of loved ones, such as one's romantic partner or good friends, has been
shown to alleviate the experience of pain and reduce defensive reactions. However, little is …

Human visual perception is efficient, flexible and context-sensitive. The Bayesian brain view
explains this with probabilistic perceptual inference integrating prior experience and …

The face of a friend indicates safety, the face of a foe can indicate threat. Here, we examine
the effects of verbal instructions ('beware of this person') on the perception of unknown …