But What About the Empress of Racnoss? The Allocation of Attention to Spiders and Doctor Who in a Visual Search Task Is Predicted by Fear and Expertise

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1484-1488

  Purkis, Helena M ^a   Lester, Kathryn J ^b   Field, Andy P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Doctor Who; Emotion; Spiders; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOBIA; SPIDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEVISION; THREAT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SPIDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755205222     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024415     Document Type: Article

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