Repetition Is the Feature Behind the Attentional Bias for Recognizing Threatening Patterns
Animals attend to what is relevant in order to behave in an effective manner and succeed in their environments. In several nonhuman species, there is an evolved bias for attending to patterns indicative of threats in the natural environment such as dangerous animals. Because skins of many dangerous...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2018-02-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704918754782 |