TY - JOUR AB - In the present study, we examined whether the detection advantage for negative-face targets in crowds of positive-face distractors over positive-face targets in crowds of negative faces can be explained by differentially efficient distractor rejection. Search Condition A demonstrated more efficient distractor rejection with negative-face targets in positive-face crowds than vice versa. Search Condition B showed that target identity alone is not sufficient to account for this effect, because there was no difference in processing efficiency for positive- and negative-face targets within neutral crowds. Search Condition C showed differentially efficient processing with neutral-face targets among positive- or negative-face distractors. These results were obtained with both a within-participants (Experiment 1) and a between-participants (Experiment 2) design. The pattern of results is consistent with the assumption that efficient rejection of positive (more homogenous) distractors is an im AU - Horstmann, Gernot AU - Scharlau, Ingrid AU - Ansorge, Ulrich ID - 6076 IS - 6 JF - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review KW - angry face distractors KW - visual search KW - negative face distractors KW - Adult KW - Anger KW - Attention KW - Face KW - Female KW - Happiness KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Rejection (Psychology) KW - Visual Perception KW - Distraction KW - Face Perception KW - Visual Perception KW - Visual Search SN - 1069-9384 TI - More efficient rejection of happy than of angry face distractors in visual search. VL - 13 ER -