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Guangjie Yuan, Guangyuan Liu, Dongtao Wei
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Erick J. Fedorenko, Patrick V. Barnwell, Edward A. Selby, Richard J. Contrada
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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Pablo Ribes-Guardiola, Carlos Ventura-Bort, Rosario Poy, Pilar Segarra, Victoria Branchadell, Javier Molto
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Tania Moretta, Simone Messerotti Benvenuti
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
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Andrew H. Farkas, Dean Sabatinelli
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
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Shuang Liu, Siyu Zhai, Dongyue Guo, Sitong Chen, Yuchen He, Yufeng Ke, Dong Ming
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CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
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Behavioral Sciences
Francesco Di Russo, Marika Berchicci, Valentina Bianco, Rinaldo L. Perri, Sabrina Pitzalis, Elena Mussini
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Rebekah Jane Kaunhoven, Dusana Dorjee
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Anna Weinberg, Kelly A. Correa, Elizabeth S. Stevens, Stewart A. Shankman
Summary: The study found that neural and behavioral markers of attention to motivationally salient cues may have trait-like characteristics, which could be helpful in identifying vulnerability markers for various forms of psychopathology in future studies.
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Jia Liu, Lin Fan, Jiaxing Jiang, Chi Li, Lingyun Tian, Xiaokun Zhang, Wangshu Feng
Summary: There has been no consensus on the neural dissociation between emotion-label and emotion-laden words. The current study used dot-probe tasks to investigate the valence effect on attentional bias toward Chinese emotion-label and emotion-laden words. The results showed a dynamic attentional bias toward positive emotion-laden words, with individuals allocating more attention to them in the early processing stage and having difficulty disengaging attention from them in the late processing stage.
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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2015)