In the face of danger: Specific viewing strategies for facial expressions of threat?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 779-786

  Green, Melissa Jayne ^a   Williams, Leanne M ^a,b   Davidson, Dean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

EID: 0041743137     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930302282     Document Type: Article

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