What you fear will appear: Detection of schematic spiders in spider fear

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 470-475

  Peira, Nathalie ^a,c   Golkar, Armita ^b,c   Larsson, Maria ^a,c   Wiens, Stefan ^a,b,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm Brain Institute   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Change detection; Emotion; Fear

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REACTION TIME; SPIDER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REACTION TIME; SPIDERS;

EID: 78149460616     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000058     Document Type: Article

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