Anger Superiority: Evolutionary Adaptive

Study 1 Many studies had shown the anger superiority affect as existing and being evolutionary adaptive as previously discussed. However a study in 2011 by Becker and colleagues believed that they had “unconfounded” the face in the crowd effect and believe that happy faces are more effectively detected as compared to angry faces. They hypothesized that if the additional features related to happy and angry faces where removed, such as an open mouth and “v” eyebrows, the anger superiority effect would not be significant. They believed that it was these cues that were causing the anger superiority effect to be processed quicker and if these cues where removed the advantage would disappear.
The study was conducted in a series of steps and different