Limitations of the Motivational Intensity Model of Attentional Tuning: Reply to Harmon-Jones, Gable, and Price (2011)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 513-516

  Friedman, Ronald S ^a   Förster, Jens ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective cues; Arousal; Attention; Intensity; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955517869     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023088     Document Type: Note

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