Implicit conditioning of faces via the social regulation of emotion: ERP evidence of early attentional biases for security conditioned faces

Psychophysiology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 734-742

  Beckes, Lane ^a   Coan, James A ^a   Morris, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; EEG ERP; Emotion; Motivation; Social factors; Unconscious processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879844604     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12056     Document Type: Article

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