The automatic conservative: Ideology-based attentional asymmetries in the processing of valenced information

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Carraro, Luciana ^a   Castelli, Luigi ^a   Macchiella, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLITICS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VOLUNTEER; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80655128544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026456     Document Type: Article

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