Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind: Memory Scanning is Attuned to Threatening Faces
Working memory (WM) theoretically affords the ability to privilege social threats and opportunities over other more mundane information, but few experiments have sought support for this contention. Using a functional logic, we predicted that threatening faces are likely to elicit encoding benefits i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200504 |