Acute Stress Eliminates Female Advantage in Detection of Ambiguous Negative Affect
The human stress response evolved to maximize an individual's probability of survival when threatened. The present study addressed whether physical danger modulates perception of an unrelated ambiguous threat and, if so, to what extent this response is sex-specific. The authors utilized a first...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2011-10-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491100900406 |