Are snakes and spiders special? Acquisition of negative valence and modified attentional processing by non-fear-relevant animal stimuli

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 430-452

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEAR; FEMALE; FISH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SNAKE; SPIDER; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 68049144407     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930801993973     Document Type: Article

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