Angry Facial Expressions Hamper Subsequent Target Identification

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 727-732

  de Jong, Peter J ^a   Koster, Ernst H W ^b   van Wees, Rineke ^a   Martens, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Attentional blink; Facial expressions; Social phobia; Temporal attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 78249274529     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019353     Document Type: Article

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