Buddha as an eye opener: A link between prosocial attitude and attentional control

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2010, Pages

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a   Van den Wildenberg, Wery P M ^b   Hsieh, Shulan ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attention; Buddhism; Global precedence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959267059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00156     Document Type: Article

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