Automaticity and the Amygdala: Nonconscious Responses to Emotional Faces

By A. Ohman. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Emotional Expressivity and Trustworthiness: The Role of Nonverbal Behavior in the Evolution of Cooperation (2003, background): “When exposed to emotionally expressive faces, humans respond automatically with autonomic responses, facial muscle activity, and specific regional brain activation (Oehman, 2002).”
Is Emotion a Natural Kind (2002, background): “But, empirically, the operation of two kinds of emotions can be split, whether this occurs in pathologies like phobias or in the phenomena reported in the literature on ‘affective primacy’ ( Ohman, 1999, 2002; Zajonc, 1980).”
Emotion Theory and Research: Highlights, Unanswered Questions, and Emerging Issues (2009, background): “Perceptual processes and action usually follow and run their course rapidly and automatically to enhance the likelihood of gaining an adaptive advantage (cf. LeDoux 1996, Öhman 2002, Tomkins 1962).”
The face wins: Stronger automatic processing of affect in facial expressions than words in a modified Stroop task (2008, background): “Affective stimuli may be of greater importance because of their greater potential survival value (e.g., Cacioppo, Gardner, & Berntson, 1999; Crawford & Cacioppo, 2002; Öhman, 1986, 2002; Öhman, Flykt, & Esteves, 2001a).”
Assessment of the Relatedness of Equivalent Stimuli Through a Semantic Differential (2009, unknown): “As documented by Ekman and colleagues (Ekman, 1972; Ekman, Sorenson, & Friesen, 1969) and confirmed in many other studies (e.g., Dimberg, Thunberg, & Grunedal, 2002; Öhman, 2002), humans are able to produce, recognize, and interpret different facial gestures with great efficiency.”
A meta-analytic review of emotion recognition and aging: implications for neuropsychological models of aging. (2008, background): “Likewise, whereas angry faces at longer durations engage the OFC, masked angry faces engage the amygdala (Morris et al., 1998) and, as for fear faces, this is thought to indicate an automatic non-cortical route when processing potential threat (Öhman, 2002).”