Threatening scenes but not threatening faces shorten time-to-contact estimates

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1698-1708

  DeLucia, Patricia R ^a   Brendel, Esther ^b   Hecht, Heiko ^b   Stacy, Ryan L ^a   Larsen, Jeff T ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Motion; Motion: in Depth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME PERCEPTION; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906344396     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0681-8     Document Type: Article

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