Does stress enhance or impair selective attention? The effects of stress and perceptual load on negative priming

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 345-357

  Braunstein Bercovitz, Hedva ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Negative priming; Perceptual load; Selective attention; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344120655     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800310000112560     Document Type: Article

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