The Role of Fear and Expectancies in Capture of Covert Attention by Spiders

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 768-775

  Devue, Christel ^a,b   Belopolsky, Artem V ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attentional selection; Bottom up process; Covert attention; Spider phobia; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOBIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPIDER PHOBIA; STIMULUS;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPIDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052281887     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023418     Document Type: Article

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