PSYC 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Amygdala
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To understand the shared signal hypothesis, how eye gaze affects your perception of emotion in others, and how the interactions between eye gaze and emotion affect threat signaling. Looking at forehead instead of eye line when talking. We tend to pay attention to the eyes. If you gaze somewhere, draws the person to look that way as well. When stimulus sets have been made, typically the faces have direct gaze (looking straight at camera: 2. Faces typically are designed with the same level of intensity. Approach-oriented emotions: happy character, direct gaze vs. averted gaze, character looks happier with direct gaze on average, anger character, direct gaze is more intense. Avoidance-oriented emotions fear character: more intense with averted gaze, shame character, more intense with averted gaze. Why: gaze behavior and emotion have both been linked to approach and avoidance motivational orientations, some emotions tend to be associated with approach/avoidance, with approach, people want to be more social (ex.
