Smiling to Smiles After Exclusion: Social Rejection Enhances Affiliative Signalling

Abstract

They then completed a computerised smile discrimination task, viewing 20 smile trials (10 genuine trials, 10 posed trials; see Figure 1). At the conclusion of each trial, participants rated whether the smile was genuine or posed. Stimuli Expressions from ten people were used as stimuli in this study. Each person person provided a neutral expression, a posed smile, and a genuine smile. Genuine smiles were elicited in situ as the people experienced a positive stimulus (for methodological details, see Miles & Johnston, 2006). Smiling to Smiles after Exclusion: Social Rejection Enhances Affiliative Signalling Michael C. Philipp, Michael Bernstein, Eric J. Vanman, & Lucy Johnston 1 School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA 2 Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University Abington, Abington, PA, USA 3 New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behvaiour, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND