Article
Psychology, Experimental
Misako Kawahara, Disa A. Sauter, Akihiro Tanaka
Summary: Culture significantly influences the perception of multisensory emotion cues, with East Asian adults relying more on vocal cues while young children and Western adults rely more on visual information. The proportion of responses based on vocal cues increased with age in East Asian participants.
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chengguo Miao, Xiaojun Li, Edmund Derrington, Frederic Moisan, Yansong Li, Jean-Claude Dreher
Summary: Social dominance is an important aspect of social life, and the ability to perceive others' dominance levels based on facial cues is a complex process. This study used event-related potentials to investigate the temporal dynamics of facial dominance evaluation. The results showed that participants inferred dominance levels at a late stage of face evaluation, and faces with the highest and lowest dominance levels elicited greater brain activity compared to faces with neutral dominance levels.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Daniel Fitousi
Summary: The study shows that people tend to associate anger with male faces and happiness or surprise with female faces. The dimensional interaction between emotion and gender is influenced by both perceptual and decisional biases, involving both bottom-up (such as shared morphological structures) and top-down (stereotypes) factors in social perception.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Robotics
Hendrik Striepe, Melissa Donnermann, Martina Lein, Birgit Lugrin
Summary: Emotional robot storytellers can engage participants as effectively as traditional audio books, while contextual head movements need to be carefully modeled for recognition, and voice acting can enhance narrative presence and make the robot more interesting.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Hongtao Shao, Yang Li, Guiqin Ren
Summary: Previous research has mainly focused on the impact of emotion on attention, neglecting the role of attention on emotion. In order to further understand the mechanisms underlying the relationship between attention and emotion, this study investigated the effects of voluntary attention on both social and non-social aspects of emotional perception. Participants completed the Rapid Serial Visual Prime (RSVP) paradigm, and their selection rates for emotional intensity, pleasure, and distinctness perception of pictures were measured. The results showed that the effect of voluntary attention on emotional perception is influenced by emotional valence and sociality.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Paula Castiajo, Ana P. Pinheiro
Summary: Alterations in vocal emotion processing have been linked to auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in both clinical and non-clinical populations. Particularly, psychotic patients with AVH show more pronounced changes when attention demands increase. Individuals reporting AVH demonstrate increased voluntary attention to vocal changes but reduced discrimination of salient cues, potentially leading to increased cognitive control demands and contributing to the development of AVH.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Adriel John Orena, Janet F. Werker
Summary: The study found that infants start to expect novel voices to correspond to novel faces between 4 and 8 months of age, and can retain learning of face-voice pairings via nonostensive cues by 8 months of age.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Riley H. Swain, Aminda J. O'Hare, Kamila Brandley, A. Tye Gardner
Summary: This study reveals that wearing face masks decreases the accurate identification of emotion expressions, particularly for disgust and sad expressions. Individual differences in social intelligence play a role in the perception of masked emotion expressions. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) predicts perception accuracy while scores on the Tromso Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS) do not.
COGNITIVE RESEARCH-PRINCIPLES AND IMPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Patricia Fernandez-Sotos, Arturo S. Garcia, Miguel A. Vicente-Querol, Guillermo Lahera, Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez, Antonio Fernandez-Caballero
Summary: The study used dynamic virtual faces to simulate rich emotional expressions, and the results showed that these virtual faces were as effective as natural faces in reproducing facial expressions, and even more accurate in recognizing emotions. Age and gender seemed to have no significant impact on facial emotion recognition.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
R. Thora Bjornsdottir, Nicholas O. Rule
Summary: Recent research has shown that facial expressions not only convey emotional experiences, but also indicate a person's cultural identification and level of acculturation. Observers can accurately detect the acculturation level of East Asian individuals through their facial expressions, with the highest accuracy found in happy expressions.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Sebastian Korb, Nace Mikus, Claudia Massaccesi, Jack Grey, Suvarnalata Xanthate Duggirala, Sonja A. Kotz, Marc Mehu
Summary: Appraisals can be influenced by cultural beliefs and stereotypes. Previous research has shown that judgments about the emotional expression of a face are influenced by the face's sex, and vice versa. However, the strength and bidirectionality of these effects remain debated. The interplay of a stimulus' emotion and sex in the auditory domain is mostly unknown.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rebecca Tyler, Alice Towler, Richard Kemp, David White
Summary: This article examines the effectiveness of face descriptions in face identification and finds a relationship between individual differences in face perception and the production and use of descriptions for identification. The results demonstrate that people can successfully describe faces for identification and that this ability is associated with perceptual face identification skill.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Ana P. Pinheiro, Andrey Anikin, Tatiana Conde, Joao Sarzedas, Sinead Chen, Sophie K. Scott, Cesar F. Lima
Summary: The study found that listeners can detect authenticity in both laughter and crying, with spontaneous laughter being perceived as more trustworthy and positive. High pitch, spectral variability, and less voicing in laughter can predict authenticity and trustworthiness.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Thomas Suslow, Anette Kersting
Summary: Alexithymia is associated with deficits in perceiving negative emotions in music and a reduced perception of aversive taste, while the impact on olfaction and touch remains inconclusive. Future research should focus on multimodal assessment and control of negative affect to better understand emotion perception deficits in alexithymia.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Nadine Lavan
Summary: When perceiving others through their faces or voices, we tend to infer their age, sex, and social characteristics. Previous studies have focused on individual characteristics perceived in isolation, but little is known about spontaneously described person characteristics from voices and faces and the differences across modalities. Experimental findings revealed that psychological descriptors, such as character traits, were most frequently used in free descriptions, while physical characteristics like age and sex were mentioned earlier compared to other types of descriptors. Moreover, similarities were found between voices and faces as well as across individual identities in these free descriptions. The results indicate that free descriptions encode differences between individual identities, which align with discrimination judgments. This research demonstrates that free description data can provide valuable insights into person perception and highlights the multivariate nature of this process.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Haichao Zhao, Ofir Turel, Damien Brevers, Antoine Bechara, Qinghua He
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Clemence Dousset, Anais Ingels, Elisa Schroder, Laura Angioletti, Michela Balconi, Charles Kornreich, Salvatore Campanella
Summary: The study found that combining cognitive rehabilitation with active tDCS over the rDLPFC is optimal for enhancing long-term inhibitory skills, as indicated by improved response times, error rates, and neurophysiological changes.
CLINICAL EEG AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Damien Brevers, Chris Baeken, Antoine Bechara, Qinghua He, Pierre Maurage, Mathieu Petieau, Guillaume Sescousse, Claus Voegele, Joel Billieux
Summary: The study investigated the impact of sports betting on brain activity, finding that nonavailable sports betting cues elicited higher brain activity in problem bettors, and lower trait-self-control was associated with increased brain reactivity to sports events with high levels of winning confidence that were nonavailable for betting.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Damien Brevers, Chris Baeken, Pierre Maurage, Guillaume Sescousse, Claus Voegele, Joel Billieux
Summary: The study suggests that increasing sustainable behaviors is more feasible than reducing unsustainable ones, with key brain regions playing important roles in this process. Neuroimaging findings indicate that increasing sustainable behaviors activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, while reducing unsustainable behaviors triggers activation in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Macha Dubuson, Charles Kornreich, Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt, Chris Baeken, Florent Wyckmans, Clemence Dousset, Catherine Hanak, Johannes Veeser, Salvatore Campanella, Armand Chatard, Nemat Jaafari, Xavier Noel
Summary: The study found that tDCS combined with alcohol cue ICT significantly increased the abstinence rate, although this effect did not persist beyond two weeks post-intervention. For patients with AUD, brain stimulation following rehabilitation may result in better clinical outcomes.
Editorial Material
Substance Abuse
Maeva Flayelle, Damien Brevers, Joel Billieux
Editorial Material
Psychiatry
D. A. M. I. E. N. BREVERS, P. I. E. R. R. E. MAURAGE, T. A. Y. L. O. R. KOHUT, J. O. S. E. C. PERALES, J. O. E. L. BILLIEUX
Summary: This commentary challenges the proposals made in Dinardi, Egorov, and Szabo's (2021) opinion paper, specifically questioning the usefulness of the (expanded) interactional model of exercise addiction and the potential misclassification of adaptive patterns of physical exercise as exercise addiction. It also raises broader concerns about conceptualizing maladaptive exercising as an addictive disorder.
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS
(2022)
Article
Biology
Clemence Dousset, Christie Chenut, Hendrik Kajosch, Charles Kornreich, Salvatore Campanella
Summary: The present study evaluates and compares the cognitive performance of heroin, cocaine, and polydrug users and investigates the impact of polydrug use on inhibitory functions. The results reveal a more deleterious impact of polydrug use on cognitive functioning and suggest impaired performance monitoring and error-processing in cocaine users.
Article
Psychiatry
Florent Wyckmans, Nilosmita Banerjee, Melanie Saeremans, Ross Otto, Charles Kornreich, Laetitia Vanderijst, Damien Gruson, Vincenzo Carbone, Antoine Bechara, Tony Buchanan, Xavier Noel
Summary: This study investigated the influence of acute stress on the balance between habitual response and the goal-directed system in individuals with gambling disorder. The results showed that stress-induced cortisol response had a deleterious effect on the orchestration between model-based and model-free learning in healthy controls, but not in individuals with gambling disorder.
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Maeva Flayelle, Jon D. Elhai, Pierre Maurage, Claus Voegele, Damien Brevers, Stephanie Baggio, Joel Billieux
Summary: This study used a machine learning analytical strategy to investigate the distinct psychological predictors of non-harmful and problematic binge-watching. It found that non-harmful involvement is characterized by positive reinforcement motivations, while problematic involvement is linked to negative reinforcement motives and impulsivity traits.
TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Amandine Luquiens, Morgane Guillou, Julie Giustiniani, Servane Barrault, Julie Caillon, Helena Delmas, Sophia Achab, Bruno Bento, Joel Billieux, Damien Brevers, Aymeric Brody, Paul Brunault, Gaelle Challet-Bouju, Mariano Choliz, Luke Clark, Aurelien Cornil, Jean-Michel Costes, Gaetan Devos, Rosa Diaz, Ana Estevez, Giacomo Grassi, Anders Hakansson, Yasser Khazaal, Daniel L. King, Francisco Labrador, Hibai Lopez-Gonzalez, Philip Newall, Jose C. Perales, Aurelien Ribadier, Guillaume Sescousse, Stephen Sharman, Pierre Taquet, Isabelle Varescon, Cora Von Hammerstein, Thierry Bonjour, Lucia Romo, Marie Grall-Bronnec
Summary: This study aimed to develop pictograms that illustrate the addictive characteristics of gambling products and to assess their impact on laypeople's ability to identify the addictiveness of gambling products. The study found that exposure to these pictograms significantly improved laypeople's ability to assess the addictiveness of gambling products compared to those who read a slogan or had no intervention.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Damien Brevers, Chris Baeken, Stefanie De Smet, Beatriz Catoira, Sara De Witte, Qinghua He, Pierre Maurage, Laimi Schulze-Steinen, Guillaume Sescousse, Claudia Vila Verde, Claus Vogele, Joel Billieux
Summary: Brain imaging studies have found that stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) can modulate brain reactivity to reward-related cues. However, the impact of contextual factors on this modulation effect remains unclear. In this study, researchers tested the effects of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (HF-rTMS) on brain reactivity to cues signaling reward availability or unavailability. The results showed that HF-rTMS modulated brain activity in response to game cues, with increases in posterior insula and caudate nucleus activation and a decrease in occipital pole activation. HF-rTMS also increased ventral striatal activity for cues available for betting but had no effect on cues unavailable for betting.
Article
Communication
Francisco J. Rivero, Ismael Muela, Juan. F. Navas, Ivan Blanco, Cristina Martin-Perez, Jose A. Rodas, Maria F. Jara-Rizzo, Damien Brevers, Jose C. Perales
Summary: This study aims to assess the differential capacity of positive and negative urgency in predicting craving and the severity of video gaming-related problems. Results show that craving largely overlaps with the severity of problems; craving for video games is associated with positive urgency but not negative urgency; positive urgency indirectly affects the number of symptoms endorsed through craving, while negative urgency directly affects the number of symptoms endorsed; urgency traits do not interact with craving in predicting the number of symptoms. These findings support the view that craving is a central feature in the emergence of video gaming problems.
CYBERPSYCHOLOGY-JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL RESEARCH ON CYBERSPACE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Damien Brevers, Daniel L. King, Joel Billieux
CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Neurosciences
D. Brevers, G. Cheron, T. Dahman, M. Petieau, E. Palmero-Soler, J. Foucart, P. Verbanck, A. M. Cebolla