Look into my eyes: Attentional bias to facial expressions predict mechanisms of gullibility

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Szpak, Zuzanna
Tyrzyk, Aleksandra
Parzuchowski, MichaƂ
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2025-12-22
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Polish Psychological Bulletin
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56
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160-170
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0079-2993
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This eye-tracking study aimed to explore the relationship between levels of gullibility and attentional allocation to threatening facial expressions. Using a dot-probe paradigm with concurrent eye-tracking, we found a distinct dissociation in how gullible versus non-gullible individuals process angry and neutral faces. While non-gullible participants demonstrated typical avoidance behaviors toward angry expressions, highly gullible individuals exhibited prolonged fixation on these social threat signals. These contrasting attentional patterns suggest that gullibility may fundamentally involve an insensitivity to cues of untrustworthiness rather than merely susceptibility to persuasion. Gullible individuals appear to lack the typical protective response of looking away from threatening social signals. These findings reveal how individual differences in gullibility shape basic attentional processes during social threat processing
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gullibility
attentional bias
social threat processing
eye-tracking
cognitive vulnerability
trustworthiness perception
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