The time course of resource allocation in spider-fearful participants during fear reactions

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1381-1400

  Flykt, Anders ^a   Bjärtå, Anna ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REACTION TIME; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SNAKE; SPIDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TURTLE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WOLF;

EID: 54349095046     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930701799603     Document Type: Article

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