On the role of goal relevance in emotional attention: Disgust evokes early attention to cleanliness

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 466-477

  Vogt, Julia ^a   Lozo, Ljubica ^b   Koster, Ernst H W ^a   de Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Disgust; Emotion regulation; Goals; Motivation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79952729168     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.532613     Document Type: Article

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