Competing for attentional priority: temporary goals versus threats.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Emotion

• Publication date

  2013-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0027204PMID 22309730
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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