Abstract
Previous research reported face perception in binocular rivalry was influenced by facial attractiveness. Some studies reported that affective person knowledge may also impact face awareness in binocular rivalry. However, it is unclear whether the effect of facial attractiveness on visual awareness would be modulated by affective person knowledge. The present study investigated the impact of facial attractiveness and affective person knowledge on visual awareness in binocular rivalry. Using affective learning paradigm, faces were presented with positive or negative behavior. Participants learned face-behavior pairs. Then, in binocular rivalry task, participants viewed faces and houses simultaneously and report their percept continuously. The results showed that attractive faces dominated longer time and were more often seen as the first percept than unattractive faces. Moreover, faces which were paired with negative behaviors were more often seen as the first percept and were suppressed for shorter time than faces paired with positive behaviors. These findings suggested the processing advantage of attractive faces in initial perceptual selection and later consciousness. Furthermore, faces associated with negative information reached awareness more quickly and had an advantage in initial dominance.
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This research was supported by the Philosophy and Social Science Planning Funding of Liaoning Province of China (L19BSH005).
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Valence of behavior | Descriptive sentences of behavior |
|---|---|
Positive | Celebrated a child’s birthday |
Took a nice vacation with the family | |
Helped an elderly woman with her groceries | |
Gave up seat on the bus to a pregnant lady | |
Complemented a coworker | |
Cooked a fabulous dinner for spouse | |
Celebrated a holiday with grandparents | |
Bought ice cream for a young child on a sunny day | |
Picked up friend at the airport after a long trip | |
Tutored a struggling classmate for free | |
Made donations to charities | |
Gave coat to someone else when it was cold | |
Help a child find his parents when he was lost in a store | |
Answered a question with a smile on the face | |
Rushed up regardless of personal danger when facing sudden danger | |
Said hello to the elders, neighbors and colleagues voluntarily | |
Negative | Provoked the man into a fistfight |
Cheated on a spouse | |
Was arrested by a police officer | |
Hit a small child | |
Stole from a blind person | |
Brandished a long knife at an unarmed crowd | |
Deliberately killed a man with a car | |
Broke into a school and killed five children | |
Threw a chair at a classmate | |
Spilled boiling water on friend | |
Killed a child’s pet | |
Lost all of the company’s money | |
Lied to the investigator about the crime | |
Crashed a friend’s car | |
Was jealous when a neighbor bought a fancy car, and then burst the tire in the middle of the night | |
Was arrested on suspicion of hitting a child |
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Shang, J., Yang, H. (2021). The Impact of Facial Attractiveness and Affective Person Knowledge on Visual Awareness. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Theory, Methods and Tools. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78462-1_33
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