Hello Fellow Attention and Emotion Researchers,

I’m a fifth-year graduate student at the University of New Mexico conducting a meta-analysis on studies of attention capture by facial expressions of emotion. Related terminology / topics include exogenous attention or attentional bias for emotional stimuli (for reviews, see Carretié, 2014; Pool et al., 2016).

I am trying to collect as many non-published cases of attention capture by facial expressions of emotion as I can. Note that I’m specifically interested in studies that used facial expressions of emotion, not other emotional stimuli, like the IAPS. I am asking you to share your unpublished data or experimental results on this topic. Your willingness to share these “file-drawer” studies makes psychology a more reproductible science and ensures my meta-analysis is as thorough as possible. The experimental effects you’ve obtained (but have not yet been published on), no matter the result, are informative, and I would greatly appreciate it if you would share them with me. Please contact me with any questions, concerns, comments or suggestions!

Joshua W. Maxwell

[email protected]

PhD. Candidate, Psychology Department, University of New Mexico

scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W07SM0QAAAAJ&hl=en

References:

Carretié, L. (2014). Exogenous (automatic) attention to emotional stimuli: A review. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(4), 1228–1258. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-014-0270-2

Pool, E., Brosch, T., Delplanque, S., & Sander, D. (2016). Attentional bias for positive emotional stimuli: A meta-analytic investigation. Psychological Bulletin, 142(1), 79–106. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000026