Faster Choice-Reaction Times to Positive than to Negative Facial Expressions: The Role of Cognitive

By J. Leppänen, M. Tenhunen, Jari K. Hietanen. 2003

142 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b1d2533958e2b90a54186d9be67a126aec6ccc02

Citations in the corpus

• Biased recognition of happy facial expressions in social anxiety. (2006, unknown): “Past research has found that people reliably recognize happy faces faster than various negative emotional faces (Feyereisen et al., 1986; Kirita & Endo, 1995; Leppanen & Hietanen, 2003, 2004; Leppänen et al., 2003).”
• Emotion matters: Implications for distracted driving (2015, unknown): “…Singhal (2013) and is consistent with several lines of research associating positive states with faster physical performance and decision-making (in the form of RTs) compared to negative and neutral emotions (Feyereisen et al., 1986; Leppänen et al., 2003; McCarthy, 2011; Stenberg et al., 1998).”