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Flanker Effects With Faces May Depend on Perceptual as Well as Emotional Differences Gernot Horstmann, Kirsten Borgstedt, and Manfred Heumann Bielefeld University Do threatening or negative faces capture attention? The authors argue that evidence from visual search, spatial cuing, and flanker tasks is equivocal and that perceptual differences may account for effects attributed to emotional categories. Empirically, the authors examine the flanker task. Although they replicate previous results in which a positive face flanked by negative faces suffers more interference than a negative face flank