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Article Citation - WoS: 40Citation - Scopus: 42Memory bias for negative emotional words in recognition memory is driven by effects of category membership(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2014) Corey N. White; Aycan Kapucu; Davide Bruno; Caren M. Rotello; Roger Ratcliff; White, Corey N.; Ratcliff, Roger; Kapucu, Aycan; Bruno, Davide; Rotello, Caren M.Recognition memory studies often find that emotional items are more likely than neutral items to be labelled as studied. Previous work suggests this bias is driven by increased memory strength/familiarity for emotional items. We explored strength and bias interpretations of this effect with the conjecture that emotional stimuli might seem more familiar because they share features with studied items from the same category. Categorical effects were manipulated in a recognition task by presenting lists with a small medium or large proportion of emotional words. The liberal memory bias for emotional words was only observed when a medium or large proportion of categorised words were presented in the lists. Similar though weaker effects were observed with categorised words that were not emotional (animal names). These results suggest that liberal memory bias for emotional items may be largely driven by effects of category membership.Article Citation - Scopus: 1The evil eye effect: vertical pupils are perceived as more threatening(Routledge info@tandf.co.uk, 2019) Sinan Alper; Elif Öykü Us; Dicle Rojda Tasman; Alper, Sinan; Tasman, Dicle Rojda; Us, Elif OykuPopular culture has many examples of evil characters having vertically pupilled eyes. Humans have a long evolutionary history of rivalry with snakes and their visual systems were evolved to rapidly detect snakes and snake-related cues. Considering such evolutionary background we hypothesised that humans would perceive vertical pupils which are characteristics of ambush predators including some of the snakes as threatening. In seven studies (aggregate N = 1458) conducted on samples from American and Turkish samples we found that vertical pupils are perceived as more threatening on both explicit (Study 1) and implicit level (Studies 2–7) and they are associated with physical rather than social threat (Study 4). Findings provided partial support regarding our hypothesis about the relevance of snake detection processes: Snake phobia and not spider phobia was found to be related to perceiving vertical pupils as threatening (Study 5) however an experimental manipulation of saliency of snakes rendered no significant effect (Study 6) and a comparison of fears of snakes alligators and cats did not support our prediction (Study 7). We discuss the potential implications and limitations of these novel findings. © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
