The flexibility of emotional attention: Accessible social identities guide rapid attentional orienting

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-316

  Brosch, Tobias ^a   Van Bavel, Jay J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dot probe; Emotion; Flexibility; Social identity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL LEARNING; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865753809     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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