Emotional attention in animals

Question 1

Bonobo study

Answer 1

Attentional bias towards emotionally relevant information.

RT in dot probe was shorter foor emotional scenes
Especially for behaviour like grooming or sex, or contagious behaviour like yawning showed large effect

Question 2

Facial feedback theory

Answer 2

Emotions are often linked to social situations and others’ emotions impact our emotions and judgement (facial feedback)

Question 3

Pupil mimicry

Answer 3

Dilated pupils are more positively associated
Hypothesised we learn the relationship between pupil sizer and emotional expression bc kids don’t have it

Mimicry;
- Kret found it was present in chimps, but only within species .
- Trust game: more likely to trust other w dilated pupil (correlates w trust)
- Possibly perspective taking tool

Question 4

fMRI macaque monkey

Answer 4

Facial expressions modulate the inferior temporal cortex and the amygdala
- Fearful expressions evoked the greatest response (as in humans)