Feedback processing is critical to trial-and-error learning. Here, we examined whether
interoceptive signals concerning the state of cardiovascular arousal influence the …

In charitable advertisements, organizations often display the image of a person in need with
different facial emotional expressions. Prior research showed the positive effect of using a …

The ability to make nuanced inferences about other people's emotional states is central to
social functioning. While emotion inferences can be sensitive to both facial movements and …

Cartoon faces are widely used in social media, animation production, and social robots
because of their attractive ability to convey different emotional information. Despite their …

The present study addressed the controversial issue of whether autistic traits in the general
population are associated with the automatic and fundamental aspects of joint attention …

The six basic emotions (disgust, anger, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise) have long
been considered discrete categories that serve as the primary units of the emotion system …

Research has suggested that interpersonal touch promotes social processing and other-
concern, and that women may respond to it more sensitively than men. In this study, we …

Considerable evidence for contextual effects in emotion perception has been reported, but
little is known about how contexts influence the perception of smiles, a rich source of social …

Introduction We used images of facial expressions (FEs) of emotion in a speeded
Same/Different task to examine (i) distributional characteristics of response times (RTs) in …

Background Pain can have a significant impact on an individual's life, as it has both
cognitive and affective consequences. However, our understanding of how pain affects …