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Regardless of whether a face shows anger or joy: both generate attention. From the perspective of psychology, both are so-called approach-oriented emotion expressions.

Does eye-contact always attract attention? Not in every case, as a research team at the University of Würzburg’s Institute of Psychology has recently shown. Why not? Because context matters.

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