Attention allocation and habituation to anger-related stimuli during a visual search task

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 399-409

  Cohen, Dale J ^a   Eckhardt, Christopher I ^b   Schagat, Klaus D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Cognition; Information processing; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 11744254078     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2337(1998)24:6<399::AID-AB1>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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