Happy but still focused: Failures to find evidence for a mood-induced widening of visual attention

Psychological Research

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 320-332

  Bruyneel, Lynn ^a   van Steenbergen, Henk ^b   Hommel, Bernhard ^b   Band, Guido P H ^b   De Raedt, Rudi ^a   Koster, Ernst H W ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84876177439     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-012-0432-1     Document Type: Article

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