When feeling is for seeing: comparing the effects of motivated perception between fear and anger on ambiguous threatening stimuli - Graton A, Fezzi H, Le Jeune N.

We do not see the world as it is: distortions of visual perception can occur depending on the goals we wish to achieve ("wishful seeing"). Following functionalist theories of emotions (e.g., "feeling is for doing"), visual perception biases could also be i...
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