Early mechanism of negativity bias: An attentional blink study

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Kihara, Ken ^a   Osaka, Naoyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Attentional resource; Negativity bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949108642     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2007.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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