Attending to the big picture: Mood and global versus local processing of visual information

Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 34-40

  Gasper, Karen ^a   Clore, Gerald L ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036365636     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00406     Document Type: Article

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