On Wildebeests and Humans: The Preferential Detection of Negative Stimuli

Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-18

  Dijksterhuis, Ap ^a   Aarts, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

AFFECT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0037268240     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.t01-1-01412     Document Type: Article

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