Focusing on fear: Attentional disengagement from emotional faces

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 145-158

  Georgiou, George A ^a,b   Bleakley, Cheryl ^a   Hayward, James ^a   Russo, Riccardo ^a   Dutton, Kevin ^a   Eltiti, Stacy ^a   Fox, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Humanities/Social Sciences   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 14844363425     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000076     Document Type: Article

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