Automatic attention does not equal automatic fear: Preferential attention without implicit valence

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 314-323

  Purkis, Helena M ^a   Lipp, Ottmar V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fear relevance; Implicit valence; Preferential attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SNAKE; SPIDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; CUES; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SNAKES; SPIDERS;

EID: 34248998709     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.314     Document Type: Article

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