Memory and attention for social threat: Anxious hypercoding-avoidance and submissive gaze aversion

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 666-672

  Terburg, David ^a   Aarts, Henk ^a   Van Honk, Jack ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Attention; Avoidance; Eye movements; Facial expressions; Hypercoding; Hypervigilance; Social interaction; Social threat; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; THREAT; FEAR; HUMAN RELATION;

ANGER; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEMORY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868351206     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027201     Document Type: Article

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