Rhea T Eskew

Conscious awareness is necessary for affective faces to influence social judgments.

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology November 2018 Ian R Kleckner, Eric C Anderson, Nicole J Betz et al.

A growing body of research claims that stimuli presented outside conscious awareness can influence affect, speech perception, decision-making, eating behavior, and social judgments. However, research has shown that conscious awareness is a continuous phenomenon. Using a continuous flash suppression (CFS) paradigm to suppress awareness of affective faces (smiling and scowling), we demonstrate...