Training Improves Avoidance of Natural Sick Faces: Changes in Visual Attention and Approach Decisions

Humans evolved a behavioral immune system to avoid infectious disease, including the ability to detect sickness in faces. However, it is unclear whether the ability to recognize and avoid facial cues of disease is malleable, flexibly calibrated by experience. Thus, we experimentally tested whether w...

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Main Authors: Tiffany S. Leung, Krisztina V. Jakobsen, Sarah E. Maylott, Arushi Malik, Shuo Zhang, Elizabeth A. Simpson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
Series:Vision
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/9/2/39
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