Affective states leak into movement execution: Automatic avoidance of threatening stimuli in fear of spider is visible in reach trajectories

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1176-1188

  Buetti, Simona ^a   Juan, Elsa ^a   Rinck, Mike ^b   Kerzel, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective states; Hand trajectories; Reaching; Spider phobia; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPIDER; SPIDER PHOBIA; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEAR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SPIDERS;

EID: 84860868683     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.640662     Document Type: Article

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