When a smile is still a conflict: Affective conflicts from emotional facial expressions of ingroup or outgroup members occur irrespective of the social interaction context
Facial expressions play a crucial role in human interactions.Typically, a positive (negative) expression evokes a congruent positive (negative) reaction within the hat observer.This congruent behavior is inverted, however, when the same positive (negative) expression is displayed by an outgroup member.Two approaches provide an explanation for this