The politics of attention: Gaze-cuing effects are moderated by political temperament

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-29

  Dodd, Michael D ^a   Hibbing, John R ^a   Smith, Kevin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaze cues; Political temperament

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONALITY TEST; POLITICS; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TEMPERAMENT;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POLITICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; TEMPERAMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951945405     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0001-x     Document Type: Article

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