The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviors.

By Abigail A. Marsh, N. Ambady, R. Kleck. Emotion, 2005

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The nonverbal communication of emotions (2015, background): “Upon viewing a fear display only briefly, adults demonstrate a tendency to pull a level toward themselves — suggesting a desire to bring the fearful individual closer in [33 ,34].”
Social Psychological Face Perception: Why Appearance Matters. (2008, unknown): “This lends additional support to the Marsh et al. (2005) hypothesis, since the evolutionary argument for impressions of fear/surprise and anger would be undercut had babyfaceness also contributed to impressions of happy people, for whom there is no obvious adaptive value to mimicking helpless…”
The Expression of Anger Across Cultures (2010, background): “Angry faces evoke fear (Dimberg & Ohman, 1996) and facilitate avoidance-related behaviors in perceivers ( Marsh, Ambady, & Kleck, 2005 ).”
Looking at You or Looking Elsewhere: The Influence of Head Orientation on the Signal Value of Emotional Facial Expressions (2007, unknown): “Approach tendency Finally, Marsh et al. (2005), who used only direct expressions, found that fear expressions elicit stronger approach tendencies than do anger expressions.”
What Are Emotion Expressions For? (2011, background): “But see also Marsh, Ambady, and Kleck (2005), which further supports the signaling function of fear expressions by demonstrating that fear can also elicit approach behaviors.”
The functional basis of face evaluation (2008, background): “For example, expressions of happiness and anger signal to the perceiver that the person can be approached or should be avoided, respectively, and there is evidence that angry faces trigger automatic avoidance responses (29, 30).”
The influence of the fear facial expression on prosocial responding (2007, background): “Data show that the fear expression causes the eyes to appear larger, the brows higher, the brow ridge flatter, the mouth fuller, and the overall appearance of the face rounder (Marsh et al., 2005a).”