The role of emotional valence for the processing of facial and verbal stimuli: Positivity or negativity bias? Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1654. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01654 https://doi.org/10.3389/fp
Kauschke, Bahn, Vesker and Schwarzer, Frontiers in Psychology 10, 2019, article 1654. Narrative review synthesising three overviews of word and face processing: words show no consistent advantage for positive or negative; faces vary with paradigm; children show a clear positivity advantage across words and faces that fades with age and sometimes reverses into a negativity bias; the overall question is described as debated.
Kauschke, Bahn, Vesker and Schwarzer, Frontiers in Psychology 10, 2019, article 1654. Narrative review synthesising three overviews of word and face processing: words show no consistent advantage for positive or negative; faces vary with paradigm; children show a clear positivity advantage across words and faces that fades with age and sometimes reverses into a negativity bias; the overall question is described as debated.
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Kauschke, C., Bahn, D., Vesker, M., & Schwarzer, G. (2019). The role of emotional valence for the processing of facial and verbal stimuli: Positivity or negativity bias? Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1654. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01654 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01654