Conserved evolutionary history for quick detection of threatening faces

Animal Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 655-660

  Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a   Kubo, Kenta ^a   Masataka, Nobuo ^b   Hayakawa, Sachiko ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Macaque monkey; Social threat; Threat superiority effect; Threatening face

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACACA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SNAKES;

EID: 84951979722     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-015-0949-y     Document Type: Article

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