Unintended allocation of spatial attention to goal-relevant but not to goal-related events

Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-55

  Vogt, Julia ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Moors, Agnes ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Goals; Intentions; Motivation; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955100401     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000042     Document Type: Article

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