The fear factor: Attentional capture by fearful faces in adolescence

Teenagers are generally more vulnerable to emotional distractions than adults, which may partly explain relatively poorer decision-making in this population. We have previously shown that performance on a flanker task is relatively mature by mid-adolescence for letter stimuli but not for emotional face stimuli. This follow-up study investigated how attention to a central affective face is modified by the presence of both affectively-opposite and...