Social Class and the Motivational Relevance of Other Human Beings: Evidence From Visual Attention

Psychological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1517-1527

  Dietze, Pia ^a   Knowles, Eric D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; open data; open materials; social class; social orientation; visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PEDESTRIAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; WALKING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CULTURE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PEDESTRIANS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 84994262647     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797616667721     Document Type: Article

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