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Comparing fear and anxiety chemosignals: Do they modulate facial muscle activit...
Gomes, Nuno; Pause, Bettina; Smeets, Monique; Semin, G. R.Fear and anxiety are the most frequently studied emotional states in chemosignal research. Despite differences between these two emotional states, findings from research using fear and anxiety body odors (BOs) are often treated as part of a similar phenomenon. In this article, we examine possible similarities and differences between participants exposed to fear and anxiety BOs on 2 dependent variables commonly ...
Comparing fear and anxiety chemosignals: Do they modulate facial muscle activit...
Gomes, Nuno; Pause, Bettina; Smeets, Monique; Semin, G. R.Fear and anxiety are the most frequently studied emotional states in chemosignal research. Despite differences between these two emotional states, findings from research using fear and anxiety body odors (BOs) are often treated as part of a similar phenomenon. In this article, we examine possible similarities and differences between participants exposed to fear and anxiety BOs on 2 dependent variables commonly ...
The spatial grounding of politics
Garrido, M. V.; Farias, A. R.; Horchak, O. V.; Semin, G. R.In three studies, we advance the research on the association between abstract concepts and spatial dimensions by examining the spatial anchoring of political categories in three different paradigms (spatial placement, memory, and classification) and using non-linguistic stimuli (i.e., photos of politicians). The general hypothesis that politicians of a conservative or socialist party are grounded spatially was ...
Does the linguistic expectancy bias extend to a second language?
Garrido, M. V.; Saraiva, M.; Semin, G. R.The linguistic expectancy bias (LEB) reflects the tendency to describe expectancy-consistent behavior more abstractly than expectancy-inconsistent. The current studies replicate the LEB in Portuguese and examine it in a second language (English). Earlier studies found differences in processing a first language (L1) and a second language (L2) shaping affective and cognitive processes. We did not expect these dif...
Two cultural processing asymmetries drive spatial attention
Mendonça, R.; Garrido, M. V.; Semin, G. R.Cultural routines, such as reading and writing direction (script direction), channel attention orientation. Depending on one's native language habit, attention is biased from left-to-right (LR) or from right-to-left (RL). Here, we further document this bias, as it interacts with the spatial directionality that grounds time concepts. We used a spatial cueing task to test whether script direction and the groundin...
The effect of simultaneously presented words and auditory tones on visuomotor p...
Mendonça, R.; Garrido, M. V.; Semin, G. R.The experiment reported here used a variation of the spatial cueing task to examine the effects of unimodal and bimodal attention-orienting primes on target identification latencies and eye gaze movements. The primes were a nonspatial auditory tone and words known to drive attention consistent with the dominant writing and reading direction, as well as introducing a semantic, temporal bias (past–future) on the ...
Social Inferences from faces as a function of the left-to-right movement continuum
Mendonça, R.; Garrido, M. V.; Semin, G. R.We examined whether reading and writing habits known to drive agency perception also shape the attribution of other agency-related traits, particularly for faces oriented congruently with script direction (i.e., left-to-right). Participants rated front-oriented, left-oriented and right-oriented faces on 14 dimensions. These ratings were first reduced to two dimensions, which were further confirmed with a new sa...
Asymmetric practices of reading and writing shape visuospatial attention and di...
Mendonça, R.; Garrido, M. V.; Semin, G. R.Movement is generally conceived of as unfolding laterally in the writing direction that one is socialized into. In ‘Western’ languages, this is a left-to-right bias contributing to an imbalance in how attention is distributed across space. We propose that the rightward attentional bias exercises an additional unidirectional influence on discrimination performance thus shaping the congruency effect typically obs...
The impact of stimuli color in lexical decision and semantic word categorizatio...
Garrido, M. V.; Prada, M.; Simão, C.; Semin, G. R.In two experiments, we examined the impact of color on cognitive performance by asking participants to categorize stimuli presented in three different colors: red, green, and gray (baseline). Participants were either asked to categorize the meaning of words as related to the concepts of “go” or “stop” (Experiment 1) or to indicate if a neutral verbal stimulus was a word or not (lexical decision task, Experiment...
The “ins” and “outs” of person perception: the influence of consonant wandering...
Garrido, M. V.; Godinho, S.; Semin, G. R.In five studies (N = 638), we extended the in-out effect to person perception, examining the influence of oral approach-avoidance movements activated by word articulation, on preference, sociability and competence judgments of mock-usernames. Users with inward, in contrast to outward-usernames, were always preferred and judged as warmer. However, they were judged as equally competent. The differential impact of...