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    Visual search for animal fear-relevant stimuli in children

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    Authors
    Waters, A.
    Lipp, Ottmar
    Spence, S.
    Date
    2008
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Waters, A. and Lipp, O. and Spence, S. 2008. Visual search for animal fear-relevant stimuli in children. Australian Journal of Psychology. 60 (2): pp. 112-125.
    Source Title
    Australian Journal of Psychology
    DOI
    10.1080/00049530701549346
    ISSN
    0004-9530
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38459
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study examined visual search for animal fear stimuli and whether high fear levels influence children's visual search. Experiment 1 was conducted with adults to provide a control for the effects observed in Experiments 2 and 3 with children. Both adults and children were faster to locate snakes and spiders among flowers and mushrooms than vice versa in arrays of nine but not of four pictures. Both groups were also faster to determine target absence from arrays of snakes and spiders than flowers and mushrooms regardless of array size. Experiment 3 showed that compared with low-fearful children, those who feared snakes and spiders did not show a search advantage for determining target absence from arrays containing snakes and spiders compared with flowers and mushrooms. These results support preferential search for animal fear stimuli in children and suggest that high fearfulness affects children's ability to disengage attention from feared stimuli. © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd.

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