Blaming the victims of your own mistakes: How visual search accuracy influences evaluation of stimuli

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1091-1106

  Chetverikov, Andrey ^a   Jóhannesson, Ómar I ^b   Kristjánsson, Árni ^b,c  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective feedback; Conflict; Conjunctive visual search; Error monitoring; Fixation dwell times; Preferences

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ERROR; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FEEDBACK; ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; EYE MOVEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84932193662     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.968097     Document Type: Article

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