Gaze aversion: A response to cognitive or social difficulty?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 727-733

  Doherty Sneddon, G ^a   Phelps, F G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; AFFECT; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; EYE FIXATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

AFFECT; CHILD; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744579302     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195338     Document Type: Article

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