Blind to Threat: The Presence of Temporary Goals Prevents Attention to Imminent Threat Already at Early Stages of Attention Allocation
Human attention is biased by several motivational factors. For instance, threat attracts attention. People also preferentially pay attention to goal-relevant stimuli even when they are not emotional. How is attention allocated when individuals encounter multiple stimuli with different motivational s...
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| Language: | English |
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American Psychological Association
2022
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