Disentangling the facilitating and hindering effects of threat‐related stimuli – A visual search study.
Although large body of research has demonstrated the attention‐grabbing nature of threat‐related stimuli, threat could also facilitate attentional processes. Previous studies suggest a linear relationship between the facilitating effect of the arousal level conveyed by threat and performance on visu...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 111; no. 4; pp. 665 - 683 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2020
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