Startling similarity: Effects of facial self-resemblance and familiarity on the processing of emotional faces.

Facial self-resemblance has been associated with positive emotional evaluations, but this effect may be biased by self-face familiarity. Here we report two experiments utilizing startle modulation to investigate how the processing of facial expressions of emotion is affected by subtle resemblance to...

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Main Authors: Johannes B Finke, Mauro F Larra, Martina U Merz, Hartmut Schächinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5720797?pdf=render