Can beauty be ignored? Effects of facial attractiveness on covert attention

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 276-281

  Sui, Jie ^a,b   Liu, Chang Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; ESTHETICS; EYE FIXATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BEAUTY; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66849124644     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.2.276     Document Type: Article

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