Automatic vigilance: The attention-grabbing power of approach-and avoidance-related social information

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1024-1037

  Wentura, Dirk ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^b   Bak, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034199480     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.78.6.1024     Document Type: Article

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