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Want to distract someone? An emotional face might work

December 15, 2014 by

The sudden appearance of a face within our visual field can affect the motor action accompanying a gesture even if the face is totally unrelated to what we are doing and even if we try to ignore it. With one condition, though: the face must display strong emotion.

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