Attachment and children's biased attentional processing: Evidence for the exclusion of attachment-related information

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Vandevivere, Eva ^a   Braet, Caroline ^a   Bosmans, Guy ^b   Mueller, Sven C ^a   De Raedt, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Parenting and Special Education Research Unit   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTHER; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; OBJECT RELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; CHILD; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84904876321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103476     Document Type: Article

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