Beauty hinders attention switch in change detection: the role of facial attractiveness and distinctiveness.

BACKGROUND: Recent research has shown that the presence of a task-irrelevant attractive face can induce a transient diversion of attention from a perceptual task that requires covert deployment of attention to one of the two locations. However, it is not known whether this spontaneous appraisal for...

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Main Authors: Wenfeng Chen, Chang Hong Liu, Kazuyo Nakabayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3290675?pdf=render