After watching the videos, students were quicker to
associate white faces than black ones with positive terms such as peace and love.
Not exact matches
In a separate group of students, the more of the 11 shows they reported watching, the quicker they were to
associate positive terms with
white faces, even without viewing the silent video clips.
ASD was also
associated with underdevelopment of
white matter in the left uncinate bundle, which plays a significant role in
face recognition and emotional processing.
The test suggests that it usually takes people longer to
associate two items that they may subconsciously perceive as incompatible — e.g., a
white or black
face with a positive or negative word.
Nevertheless, greater attention orientation toward happy
faces, for children with high CU traits and high ODD - related problems, is in line with data suggesting that adolescent youth with disruptive behaviors exhibit increased reward sensitivity (Byrd et al., 2014) and that CU traits are
associated with a tendency to be over-focused on reward (Frick et al., 2003; Frick and
White, 2008).