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

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dc.abstract.enThis 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
dc.affiliationWydziaƂ Psychologii w Sopocie
dc.contributor.authorSzpak, Zuzanna
dc.contributor.authorTyrzyk, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorParzuchowski, MichaƂ
dc.date.access2025-12-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-17T11:07:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-17T11:07:57Z
dc.date.created2025-12-22
dc.date.issued2025-12-22
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.physical160-170
dc.description.sdgNoSDGsAreRelevantForThisPublication
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume56
dc.identifier.doi10.24425/ppb.2025.153988
dc.identifier.eissn1641-7844
dc.identifier.issn0079-2993
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2462
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/153988/edition/138228/content
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOPEN_JOURNAL
dc.subject.engullibility
dc.subject.enattentional bias
dc.subject.ensocial threat processing
dc.subject.eneye-tracking
dc.subject.encognitive vulnerability
dc.subject.entrustworthiness perception
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dc.titleLook into my eyes: Attentional bias to facial expressions predict mechanisms of gullibility
dc.title.journalPolish Psychological Bulletin
dc.typeJournalArticle
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