Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

People's faces show fear in many different circumstances. However, when people are
terrified, as well as showing emotion, they run for cover. When we see a bodily expression of …

Using intersectionality to change how psychologists think about the demographic profile of
their participants is one readily available change that psychologists across the discipline can …

Functional neuroimaging studies have revealed human brain regions, notably in the fusiform
gyrus, that respond selectively to images of faces as opposed to other kinds of objects. Here …

The human body, like the human face, is a rich source of socially relevant information about
other individuals. Evidence from studies of both humans and non-human primates points to …

Why bodies? It is rather puzzling that given the massive interest in affective neuroscience in
the last decade, it still seems to make sense to raise the question 'Why bodies' and to try to …

Sexual objectification (treating a person as a body or collection of body parts) involves a
cultural prioritizing of women's sexual appearance and appeal over other attributes. Sexual …

Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important
social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces âe" our feelings, our locus of …

The most familiar emotional signals consist of faces, voices, and whole-body expressions,
but so far research on emotions expressed by the whole body is sparse. The authors …

It has been claimed that faces are recognized as a “whole” rather than by the recognition of
individual parts. In a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology in …