Human faces and bodies provide important social cues, which contribute to the identification
of other people, their age and gender as well as their intentions and affective states. The …

Recent research suggests that emotion effects in word processing resemble those in other
stimulus domains such as pictures or faces. The present study aims to provide more direct …

Lexical decisions to high-and low-arousal negative words and to low-arousal neutral and
positive words were examined in an event-related potentials (ERP) study. Reaction times to …

How does the brain respond to statements that clash with a person's value system? We
recorded event-related brain potentials while respondents from contrasting political-ethical …

BackgroundPrevious studies investigating attentional biases in social anxiety disorder
(SAD) have yielded mixed results. Recent event-related potential (ERP) studies using the …

Recent findings have demonstrated that women might be more reactive than men to viewing
painful stimuli (vicarious response to pain), and therefore more empathic [Han, S., Fan, Y., & …

Rapidly decoding the emotional content of a face is an important skill for successful social
behavior. Several Event Related brain Potential (ERP) have indicated that emotional …

Emotion regulation is a critical component of healthy development, yet few studies examine
neural correlates of emotion regulation in childhood. In the present study, we assessed …

The authors assessed whether parafoveal perception of emotional content influences
saccade programming. In Experiment 1, paired emotional and neutral scenes were …

Background In ecological situations, threatening stimuli often come out from the peripheral
vision. Such aggressive messages must trigger rapid attention to the periphery to allow a …