Research Article

Emotional Expression Processing and Depressive Symptomatology: Eye-Tracking Reveals Differential Importance of Lower and Middle Facial Areas of Interest

Table 2

Follow-up t-tests for three-way interaction.
(a) BDI low

EmotionLowerMiddleUpper

Anger
Middle7.932
Noncore14.3553.439−0.230
Upper9.6303.672

Fear
Middle3.197
Noncore10.6224.4603.667
Upper14.4069.873

Happiness
Middle2.678
Noncore11.7434.3210.854
Upper10.4666.784

Neutral
Middle1.382
Noncore7.8094.1423.128
Upper14.1498.734

Sadness
Middle3.890
Noncore11.5433.2530.803
Upper8.9234.365

(b) BDI high

EmotionLowerMiddleUpper

Anger
Middle5.007
Noncore8.3223.290−0.334
Upper6.6983.075

Fear
Middle4.591
Noncore10.1194.5311.878
Upper9.8997.060

Happiness
Middle3.664
Noncore9.8884.742−0.456
Upper9.5494.739

Neutral
Middle3.483
Noncore8.3413.3832.367
Upper9.3645.943

Sadness
Middle4.096
Noncore8.4414.0140.035
Upper6.6314.572

Significant at the 0.0008, Bonferroni correction.