Search asymmetries with real faces: Testing the anger-superiority effect

Emotion

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-207

  Horstmann, Gernot ^a   Bauland, Andrea ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Evolution; Expression; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ECOLOGY; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; FACE ASYMMETRY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANGER; ATTENTION; FACE; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745967485     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.2.193     Document Type: Article

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