Spiders appear to move faster than non-threatening objects regardless of one's ability to block them

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 284-291

  Witt, Jessica K ^a   Sugovic, Mila ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action specific perception; Affordances; Speed perception; Spiders; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIDER;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; SPIDERS;

EID: 84878157419     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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