Xin-Rui Zhang

Emotion-action incompatibility in an approach-avoidance task: behavioral costs and ERP dynamics of accuracy vulnerability.

Facial expressions can bias people toward approach or avoidance, yet current goals sometimes require the opposite action. We examined how such emotion-action conflict affects performance and event-related potentials (ERPs) in a modified approach-avoidance task. Thirty-four young adults responded to happy and disgusted...