Don't look now: Attentional avoidance of emotionally valenced cues

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 623-646

  Mackintosh, Bundy ^a   Mathews, Andrew ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037931467     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930302298     Document Type: Article

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