Snakes and cats in the flower bed: Fast detection is not specific to pictures of fear-relevant animals

Emotion

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 233-250

  Lipp, Ottmar V ^a   Waters, Allison M ^a   Derakshan, Nazanin ^b   Logies, Sandra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAT; COLLEGE STUDENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FLOWER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHOBIA; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SNAKE; SPIDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CATS; FEAR; FEMALE; FLOWERS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SNAKES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4444282665     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.4.3.233     Document Type: Article

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