@article{WeymarVenturaBortWendtetal.2019,
  author    = {Weymar, Mathias and Ventura-Bort, Carlos and Wendt, Julia and Lischke, Alexander},
  title     = {Behavioral and neural evidence of enhanced long-term memory for untrustworthy faces},
  series = {Scientific Reports},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {Scientific Reports},
  publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Limited},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2045-2322},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41598-019-55705-7},
  pages     = {8},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {In daily life, we automatically form impressions of other individuals on basis of subtle facial features that convey trustworthiness. Because these face-based judgements influence current and future social interactions, we investigated how perceived trustworthiness of faces affects long-term memory using event-related potentials (ERPs). In the current study, participants incidentally viewed 60 neutral faces differing in trustworthiness, and one week later, performed a surprise recognition memory task, in which the same old faces were presented intermixed with novel ones. We found that after one week untrustworthy faces were better recognized than trustworthy faces and that untrustworthy faces prompted early (350-550 ms) enhanced frontal ERP old/new differences (larger positivity for correctly remembered old faces, compared to novel ones) during recognition. Our findings point toward an enhanced long-lasting, likely familiarity-based, memory for untrustworthy faces. Even when trust judgments about a person do not necessarily need to be accurate, a fast access to memories predicting potential harm may be important to guide social behaviour in daily life.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PahnkeMauMoellerJungeetal.2019,
  author    = {Pahnke, Rike and Mau-M{\"o}ller, Anett and Junge, Martin and Wendt, Julia and Weymar, Mathias and Hamm, Alfons O. and Lischke, Alexander},
  title     = {Oral Contraceptives Impair Complex Emotion Recognition in Healthy Women},
  series = {Frontiers in neuroscience},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Frontiers in neuroscience},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1662-453X},
  doi       = {10.3389/fnins.2018.01041},
  pages     = {9},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Despite the widespread use of oral contraceptives (OCs), remarkably little is known about the effects of OCs on emotion, cognition, and behavior. However, coincidental findings suggest that OCs impair the ability to recognize others' emotional expressions, which may have serious consequences in interpersonal contexts. To further investigate the effects of OCs on emotion recognition, we tested whether women who were using OCs (n = 42) would be less accurate in the recognition of complex emotional expressions than women who were not using OCs (n = 53). In addition, we explored whether these differences in emotion recognition would depend on women's menstrual cycle phase. We found that women with OC use were indeed less accurate in the recognition of complex expressions than women without OC use, in particular during the processing of expressions that were difficult to recognize. These differences in emotion recognition did not depend on women's menstrual cycle phase. Our findings, thus, suggest that OCs impair women's emotion recognition, which should be taken into account when informing women about the side-effects of OC use.},
  language  = {en}
}