Deployment of attention to emotional pictures varies as a function of externally-oriented thinking: An eye tracking investigation

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-5

  Wiebe, Alex ^a   Kersting, Anette ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Attention allocation; Emotion; Externally oriented thinking; Eye tracking; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; DIFFICULTIES DESCRIBING FEELING; DIFFICULTIES IDENTIFYING FEELING; EXTERNALLY ORIENTED THINKING; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOVIE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; THINKING; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; EMOTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THINKING; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994493698     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: 18737943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.11.001     Document Type: Article

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