These results imply that social attention is less automatic and reflexive than previously assumed and can be suppressed by executive control to efficiently maintain goal-directed behavior 🤝
Overall, participants were more likely to look at the CSpos 🎯. Their first saccade was hereby mostly driven towards the social CSpos.
In Experiment 2, we included an attentional competition phase, during which participants were confronted with simultaneous presentations of social and non-social CSpos and CSneg.
It turned out: Participants could adapt their looking behavior and avoided looking towards punished stimuli – social or not 👏. Nevertheless ☝️, they were still faster in looking towards social stimuli.
We presented social (faces) and non-social (fractals) stimuli serving as CSpos or CSneg. If participants looked at the CSpos, they were rewarded with points 🏆. However, if they looked at the CSneg, they received an aversive electrical stimulation⚡ (Experiment 1) or lost points ❌ (Experiment 2).
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