Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 466-478

  Öhman, Arne ^a   Flykt, Anders ^a,b   Esteves, Francisco ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SNAKE; SPIDER;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SNAKES; SPIDERS;

EID: 85035568153     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.130.3.466     Document Type: Article

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