Self-esteem And The Attention Bias To Different Facial Expressions

Three experiments are designed to explore and show the attention bias with different self-esteem individuals to the real facial expressions showed through the computer programme.40 volunteers contributed their photos about three kind facial expressions, and 89 college students attended to the experiment phases as participants, filled out the questionnaires on self-esteem and finished the visual probe task and expression identify tasks at the same time. The results show that the individual with high self-esteem hold the attention bias to the anger faces, and there are not any correlativity between attention bias to happy faces and self-esteem; and the individual with high self-esteem could be more efficient to compare the expression under different atmosphere,and more easy to find a happy face from different kinds of background.