Attentional interference effects of emotional pictures: Threat, negativity, or arousal?

Emotion

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-66

  Schimmack, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; Emotion; Evolution; Negativity bias; Pictorial stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NEGATIVISM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 15244358391     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.1.55     Document Type: Article

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