@article{LischkeJungeHammetal.2018,
  author    = {Lischke, Alexander and Junge, Martin and Hamm, Alfons O. and Weymar, Mathias},
  title     = {Enhanced processing of untrustworthiness in natural faces with neutral expressions},
  series = {Emotion : a new journal from the American Psychological Association},
  volume    = {18},
  journal   = {Emotion : a new journal from the American Psychological Association},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {American Psychological Association},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {1528-3542},
  doi       = {10.1037/emo0000318},
  pages     = {181 -- 189},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {During social interactions, individuals rapidly and automatically judge others' trustworthiness on the basis of subtle facial cues. To investigate the behavioral and neural correlates of these judgments, we conducted 2 studies: 1 study for the construction and evaluation of a set of natural faces differing in trustworthiness (Study 1: n = 30) and another study for the investigation of event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to this set of natural faces (Study 2: n = 30). Participants of both studies provided highly reliable and nearly identical trustworthiness ratings for the selected faces, supporting the notion that the discrimination of trustworthy and untrustworthy faces depends on distinct facial cues. These cues appear to be processed in an automatic and bottom-up-driven fashion because the free viewing of these faces was sufficient to elicit trustworthiness-related differences in late positive potentials (LPPs) as indicated by larger amplitudes to untrustworthy as compared with trustworthy faces. Taken together, these findings suggest that natural faces contain distinct cues that are automatically and rapidly processed to facilitate the discrimination of untrustworthy and trustworthy faces across various contexts, presumably by enhancing the elaborative processing of untrustworthy as compared with trustworthy faces. (},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WendtWeymarJungeetal.2018,
  author    = {Wendt, Julia and Weymar, Mathias and Junge, Martin and Hamm, Alfons O. and Lischke, Alexander},
  title     = {Heartfelt memories},
  series = {Emotion : a new journal from the American Psychological Association},
  volume    = {19},
  journal   = {Emotion : a new journal from the American Psychological Association},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {American Psychological Association},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {1528-3542},
  doi       = {10.1037/emo0000396},
  pages     = {178 -- 182},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {During social interactions, we rapidly judge others' trustworthiness on basis of their facial characteristics. Face-based trustworthiness judgments may not only affect our current but also our future interactions because we seem to be more inclined to remember untrustworthy than trustworthy faces. Memory formation of salient stimuli like untrustworthy faces may be modulated by the interplay between the autonomic and central nervous system, which can be indexed by changes in vagally mediated heart rate variability (HRV). To test this assumption, we investigated whether differences in HRV would be associated with differences in memory formation of untrustworthy faces in a sample of healthy participants (n = 34, all female). Untrustworthy faces were remembered more accurately than trustworthy faces, albeit only by participants with high and not low HRV. Across participants, increased memory accuracy for untrustworthy faces was associated with increased HRV. We discuss these findings in the context of neurobiological theories regarding the interplay between the autonomic and central nervous system during the regulation of autonomic, emotional and cognitive processes. (PsycInfo Database Record},
  language  = {en}
}