Ignoring Facial Emotion Expressions Does not Eliminate their Influence on Cooperation Decisions

Whereas the automaticity of emotion processing has been investigated in several cognitive domains, its mandatory influence on cooperative decisionmaking is still unexplored. We employed an interference-task to evaluate whether explicit instructions to ignore the emotions of others during alleged interpersonal interactions override their behavioral effects. Participants played a Trust Game multiple times with eight cooperative or noncooperative partners, who displayed facial expressions of happiness or anger. Emotions were non-predictive regarding [...]

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