Fearful, but not angry, expressions diffuse attention to peripheral targets in an attentional blink paradigm

Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 462-468

  Taylor, James M ^a   Whalen, Paul J ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Attentional blink; Facial expression; Fear

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901838392     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036034     Document Type: Article

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