Gaze cuing of attention in snake phobic women: the influence of facial expression

Only a few studies investigated whether animal phobics exhibit attentional biases in contexts where no phobic stimuli are present. Among these, recent studies provided evidence for a bias toward facial expressions of fear and disgust in animal phobics. Such findings may be due to the fact that these...

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Main Authors: Carolina ePletti, Mario eDalmaso, Michela eSarlo, Giovanni eGalfano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00454/full