Murder, She Wrote: Enhanced Sensitivity to Negative Word Valence

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 609-618

  Nasrallah, Maha ^a   Carmel, David ^b   Lavie, Nilli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

awareness; emotion; negative valence detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RATING SCALE; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350129241     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016305     Document Type: Article

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