Attentional Bias in Humans Toward Human and Bonobo Expressions of Emotion
| Autor: | Kret, M.E., Berlo, E. van |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Social Psychology Emotions Attentional bias 050105 experimental psychology Attentional Bias 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Emotion perception Psychology Animals Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention biology Bonobo 05 social sciences General Medicine Pan paniscus biology.organism_classification BF1-990 Facial Expression Female psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Evolutionary Psychology, Vol 19 (2021) Evolutionary Psychology, 19(3) |
| ISSN: | 1474-7049 |
| Popis: | Correctly recognizing and efficiently attending to emotional situations are highly valuable skills for social species such as humans and bonobos, humans' closest living relatives. In the current study, we investigated whether humans perceive a range of emotional situations differently when these involved other humans compared to bonobos. A large group of children and adults participated in an emotion perception task and rated scenes showing either bonobos or humans in situations depicting distressed or aggressive behavior, yawning, scratching, grooming, playing, sex scenes or neutral situations. A new group of people performed a dot-probe task to assess attentional biases toward these materials. The main finding is that humans perceive emotional scenes showing people similarly as emotional scenes of bonobos, a result reflecting a shared evolutionary origin of emotional expressions. Other results show that children interpreted bonobos’ bared teeth displays as a positive signal. This signal is related to the human smile, but is frequently seen in distressed situations, as was the case in the current experiment. Children may still need to learn to use contextual cues when judging an ambiguous expression as positive or negative. Further, the sex scenes were rated very positively, especially by male participants. Even though they rated these more positively than women, their attention was captured similarly, surpassing all other emotion categories. Finally, humans’ attention was captured more by human yawns than by bonobo yawns, which may be related to the highly contagious nature of yawns, especially when shown by close others. The current research adds to earlier work showing morphological, behavioral and genetic parallels between humans and bonobos by showing that their emotional expressions have a common origin too. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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