The politics of the face-in-the-crowd

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1199-1213

  Mills, Mark ^a   Smith, Kevin B ^a   Hibbing, John R ^a   Dodd, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger superiority; Eye movements; Individual differences; Politics; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TEMPERAMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANGER; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; POLITICS; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEMPERAMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901489928     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035177     Document Type: Article

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