Affective states, which refer to feelings or emotions, are a key component of animal welfare,
but these are also difficult to assess. Drawing upon a body of theoretical and applied work …

Human eyes serve two key functions in face-to-face social interactions: they provide cues
about a person's emotional state and attentional focus (gaze direction). Both functions …

Emotional faces are motivationally salient stimuli that automatically capture attention and
rapidly potentiate neural processing. Because of their superior temporal resolution, scalp …

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate the intensity evaluation of social stimuli in
depression. METHODS: Twenty-four never-disordered control participants (NC), 24 sub …

The face has long been considered the gateway to understanding human emotion and
cognition. Body language is an equally powerful means of communication, however …

Findings concerning the emotional modulation of the N170 component of the visual event-
related potential are mixed. In the present report we tested the hypothesis that the emotional …

The human brain is tuned to recognize emotional facial expressions in faces having a
natural upright orientation. The relative contributions of featural, configural, and holistic …

This paper highlights a number of unresolved theoretical issues that, it is argued, continue to
impede the construction of a viable model of behavioural control in personality psychology. It …

Providing evidence for categorical theories of emotion mandates the inclusion of discrete
emotion categories beyond the typical six “basic” emotions. Traditional neurophysiological …

If the whites of the sclera can impact neural processing of eye expressions (Hardee,
Thompson, & Puce, 2008; Whalen et al., 1998), do seen teeth affect neural responses to …