Individual differences in psychoticism predict attention for emotional faces

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-501

  Miskovic, Vladimir ^a   Schmidt, Louis A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention bias; Emotion; Facial expressions; Personality; Psychoticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 73749085321     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.10.031     Document Type: Article

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