Publications by authors named "H GIBBONS"

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  • Selective attention to the emotional quality (valence) of words enhances the early ability to differentiate emotions associated with relevant words while diminishing responses to irrelevant ones.
  • The study involved 58 participants who responded quickly to words of a certain emotional quality, revealing that short, high-frequency, and low-arousal words were more effectively processed in terms of emotional discrimination.
  • Results indicate that both emotional quality and arousal levels interact during initial processing, supporting the idea that these factors influence how we perceive and react to emotional words at a subconscious level.
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Deception often occurs in response to a preceding cue (e.g., a precarious question) alerting us about the need to subsequently lie.

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Studies of social cognition have shown gender differences regarding human face processing. One interesting finding is the enhanced processing of opposite-gender faces at different time stages, as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Crucially, from an evolutionary perspective, such a bias might interact with the emotional expression of the face.

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Background & Aims: The incidence of Crohn's disease (CD) continues to increase worldwide. The contribution of CD4 cell populations remains to be elucidated. We aimed to provide an in-depth transcriptional assessment of CD4 T cells driving chronic inflammation in CD.

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