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The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross-syndrome Comparisons (2022)
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Ridley, E., Arnott, B., Riby, D., Burt, M., Hanley, M., & Leekam, S. (2022). The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross-syndrome Comparisons. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 127(4), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-127.4.293

Past research shows that individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have heightened and prolonged eye contact. Using parent report measures, we examined not only the presence of eye contact but also its qualitative features. Study 1 included individuals... Read More about The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross-syndrome Comparisons.

Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study (2022)
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Smekal, V., Burt, D., Kentridge, R., & Hausmann, M. (2022). Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study. Neuropsychology, 36(5), 443-455. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000804

Objective: To resolve inconsistencies in the literature regarding the dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) in emotional face perception, specifically investigating the role of the intensity of emotional expressions, different emotions, and... Read More about Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study.

Hemispheric Asymmetries in Categorical Facial Expression Perception (2018)
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Burt, D., & Hausmann, M. (2019). Hemispheric Asymmetries in Categorical Facial Expression Perception. Emotion, 19(4), 584-592. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000460

Although many sensory phenomena vary continuously, humans tend to divide them into discrete categories with facial expressions being divided into categories such as happy, sad, anger, and fear. A critical effect of category use is categorical percept... Read More about Hemispheric Asymmetries in Categorical Facial Expression Perception.

Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media (2017)
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Jucker, J., Thornborrow, T., Beierholm, U., Burt, D., Barton, R., Evans, E., …Boothroyd, L. (2017). Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 8438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08653-z

Television consumption influences perceptions of attractive female body size. However, cross-cultural research examining media influence on body ideals is typically confounded by differences in the availability of reliable and diverse foodstuffs. 112... Read More about Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media.

Television exposure predicts body size ideals in rural Nicaragua (2016)
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Boothroyd, L., Jucker, J., Thornborrow, T., Jamieson, M., Burt, D., Barton, R., …Tovée, M. (2016). Television exposure predicts body size ideals in rural Nicaragua. British Journal of Psychology, 107(4), 752-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12184

Internalization of a thin ideal has been posited as a key risk factor in the development of pathological eating attitudes. Cross-culturally, studies have found a preference for heavier bodies in populations with reduced access to visual media compare... Read More about Television exposure predicts body size ideals in rural Nicaragua.

A leftward bias however you look at it: revisiting the emotional chimeric face task as a tool for measuring emotion lateralization (2015)
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Innes, R., Burt, D., Birch, Y., & Hausmann, M. (2016). A leftward bias however you look at it: revisiting the emotional chimeric face task as a tool for measuring emotion lateralization. Laterality, 21(4-6), 643-661. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2015.1117095

Left hemiface biases observed within the Emotional Chimeric Face Task (ECFT) support emotional face perception models whereby all expressions are preferentially processed by the right hemisphere. However, previous research using this task has not con... Read More about A leftward bias however you look at it: revisiting the emotional chimeric face task as a tool for measuring emotion lateralization.

Processing of Facial Emotion in Bipolar Depression and Euthymia (2015)
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Robinson, L., Gray, J., Burt, M., Ferrier, I., & Gallagher, P. (2015). Processing of Facial Emotion in Bipolar Depression and Euthymia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 21(09), 709-721. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355617715000909

Previous studies of facial emotion processing in bipolar disorder (BD) have reported conflicting findings. In independently conducted studies, we investigate facial emotion labeling in euthymic and depressed BD patients using tasks with static and dy... Read More about Processing of Facial Emotion in Bipolar Depression and Euthymia.

Red clothing increases perceived dominance, aggression and anger (2015)
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Wiedemann, D., Burt, D., Hill, R., & Barton, R. (2015). Red clothing increases perceived dominance, aggression and anger. Biology Letters, 11(5), Article 20150166. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0166

The presence and intensity of red coloration correlate with male dominance and testosterone in a variety of animal species, and even artificial red stimuli can influence dominance interactions. In humans, red stimuli are perceived as more threatening... Read More about Red clothing increases perceived dominance, aggression and anger.

Concurrent parent–child relationship quality is associated with an imprinting-like effect in children’s facial preferences (2015)
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Vukovic, J., Boothroyd, L., Meins, E., & Burt, D. (2015). Concurrent parent–child relationship quality is associated with an imprinting-like effect in children’s facial preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(4), 331-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.03.004

Humans have been shown to display phenomena resembling sexual imprinting, whereby adults are attracted to features in potential mates which resemble their opposite sex parent. In humans this may be particularly so when the parent–child relationship i... Read More about Concurrent parent–child relationship quality is associated with an imprinting-like effect in children’s facial preferences.

Facial emotion recognition in Williams syndrome and Down syndrome: A matching and developmental study (2014)
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Martínez-Castilla, P., Burt, M., Borgatti, R., & Gagliardi, C. (2015). Facial emotion recognition in Williams syndrome and Down syndrome: A matching and developmental study. Child Neuropsychology, 21(5), 668-692. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2014.945408

In this study both the matching and developmental trajectories approaches were used to clarify questions that remain open in the literature on facial emotion recognition in Williams syndrome (WS) and Down syndrome (DS). The matching approach showed t... Read More about Facial emotion recognition in Williams syndrome and Down syndrome: A matching and developmental study.