Psychopathic traits and preattentive threat processing in children: A novel test of the fearlessness hypothesis

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1280-1287

  Sylvers, Patrick D ^a   Brennan, Patricia A ^b   Lilienfeld, Scott O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

child; emotion; face recognition; fear; implicit; juvenile; psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053498129     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611420730     Document Type: Article

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