On the Automatic Nature of Threat: Physiological and Evaluative Reactions to Survival-Threats Outside Conscious Perception

Overview

Journal Affect Sci

Publisher Springer

Date 2022 Sep 1

PMID 36046094

Authors

David S March

Lowell Gaertner

Michael A Olson

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Abstract

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-021-00090-6.

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