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BRIEF ARTICLE

Eye-movement evidence of the time-course of attentional bias for threatening pictures in test-anxious students

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Pages 781-790 | Received 21 Jul 2015, Accepted 06 Feb 2016, Published online: 29 Feb 2016

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