Francisco Esteves

Full Professor

Generic Bio

Currently Full Professor of Psychology at Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences at UCP. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Uppsala University, Sweden. He has been teacher and researcher at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and at Universidade Lusófona and ISCTE/IUL in Portugal. He was the director of The Centre for Research and Social Intervention at ISCTE-IUL, and coordinator of Master program in emotion psychology. He is currently the coordinator of the Master program in emotion psychology at Mid Sweden University. His main research interests have been the study of the relationship between cognitive and emotional components of human information processing, in particular, how our emotions influence our attention. Several dozens of scientific peer-reviewed articles have been the outcome of this research.

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Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness

Francisco Esteves (with Petisca, Sofia). 2022. International Journal of Social Robotics
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Can you be a follower even when you do not follow the leader? Yes, you can

Francisco Esteves & Maria Teresa Almeida (with Teresa Almeida). 2021. Leadership
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Children’s Attitudes and Behaviors about Oral Health and Dental Practices

Francisco Esteves (with Fernandes, Sara Costa). 2021. Healthcare
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Editorial: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): The Impact and Role of Mass Media During the Pandemic

Nuno Piçarra & Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, Patrícia). 2021. Frontiers in Psychology
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Empirical investigation of the relationship between bilingualism and social flexibility

Francisco Esteves (with Marie-France Champoux-Larsson). 2021. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science
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In Memoriam: Arne Öhman (1943–2020)

Francisco Esteves (with Peter J. Lang). 2020. Psychophysiology
Book Chapter

Perceptions of People’s Dishonesty Towards Robots

Francisco Esteves (with Petisca, Sofia). 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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The effect of a robotic agent on dishonest behavior

Francisco Esteves (with Petisca, Sofia). 2020. IVA '20: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
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Emotional Impact and Perceived Effectiveness of Text-Only versus Graphic Health Warning Tobacco Labels on Adolescents

Francisco Esteves (with Margalhos, P.). 2019. Spanish Journal of Psychology
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A sensibilidade materna e a regulação emocional em contexto pré-escolar: O efeito moderador da qualidade da relação educador-criança

Francisco Esteves (with Fialho, A.). 2018. I Congresso Internacional Integrando Saberes: Pedagogia, Formação e Investigação em Educação
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Development and validation of the Portuguese version of the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale,Desarrollo y validación de la versión portuguesa de la Escala de Diagnóstico del Trastorno Alimentario

Francisco Esteves (with Santos, I.F.). 2018. Ansiedad y Estres
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Identification of facial expressions of emotion by 4-year-old children from different linguistic environments

Francisco Esteves (with Champoux-Larsson, M.-F.). 2018. International Journal of Bilingualism
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Preoperative preparation programs: Playing about surgery and hospitalization

Francisco Esteves (with Costa Fernandes, S.). 2018. 2nd International Conference on Childhood and Adolescence
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Let's play about children's hospitalization and surgery

Francisco Esteves (with Costa Fernandes, S.). 2017. 31st Annual conference of the European Health Psychology Society on “Innovative ideas in Health Psychology”
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Must we suffer to succeed?: when anxiety boosts motivation and performance

Francisco Esteves (with Strack, J.). 2017. Journal of Individual Differences
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Psychometric Assessment of the "Child Surgery Worries Questionnaire" Among Portuguese children

Francisco Esteves (with Costa Fernandes, S.). 2017. 31st Annual conference of the European Health Psychology Society on “Innovative ideas in Health Psychology”
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Psychometric assessment of the Child Surgery Worries Questionnaire among Portuguese children

Francisco Esteves (with Fernandes, S.). 2017. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
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Seeing the funny side of things: humour processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Francisco Esteves (with Silva, C.). 2017. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Adaptação da escala de empatia com animais (EEA) para a população Portuguesa

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Emauz, A.). 2016. Analise Psicologica
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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Personality Traits, Attachment Security, and Satisfaction With Relationships as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being in India, Sweden, and the United States

Francisco Esteves (with Galinha, I.C.). 2016. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
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Internalized stigma and quality of life domains among people with mental illness: The mediating role of self-esteem

Francisco Esteves & Sandra Oliveira (with Oliveira, S.E.H.). 2016. Journal of Mental Health
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Let’s play about surgery

Francisco Esteves (with Costa Fernandes, S.). 2016. XI Congreso Internacional SEAS
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Maternal sensitivity and emotion regulation in the preschool context: Moderating effect of quality of teacher-child interactions.

Francisco Esteves (with Fialho, A.). 2016. 24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development
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Parenting styles and emotion regulation in the preschool context: Moderating effect of quality of teacher-child interactions.

Francisco Esteves (with Fialho, A.). 2016. 2016 EARLI-SIG 5 Conference on Bridging Multiple Perspectives in Early Childhood Education
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Toward an understanding of the quality of life construct: validity and reliability of the WHOQOL-Bref in a psychiatric sample

Sandra Oliveira & Francisco Esteves (with Oliveira, S.). 2016. Psychiatry Research
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A "dry eye" for victims of violence: Effects of playing a violent video game on pupillary dilation to victims and on aggressive behavior

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2015. Psychology of Violence
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Attachment style impacts behavior and early oculomotor response to positive, but not negative, pictures

Francisco Esteves (with Silva, C.). 2015. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
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Beyond Traditional Clinical Measurements for Screening Fears and Phobias

Francisco Esteves (with Rosa, P.J.). 2015. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
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Clinical profiles of stigma experiences, self-esteem and social relationships among people with schizophrenia, depressive, and bipolar disorders

Francisco Esteves & Sandra Oliveira (with Oliveira, S.E.H.). 2015. Psychiatry Research
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Emotions under the skin autonomic reactivity to emotional pictures in insecure attachment

Francisco Esteves (with Silva, C.). 2015. Journal of Psychophysiology
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Exams? Why worry? Interpreting anxiety as facilitative and stress appraisals

Francisco Esteves (with Strack, J.). 2015. Anxiety, Stress and Coping
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In the grip of fear: Dissociations in attentional processing of animal fearful individuals

Francisco Esteves (with Soares, S.C.). 2015. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
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Motivational approach and avoidance in autism spectrum disorder: A comparison between real photographs and cartoons

Francisco Esteves (with Silva, C.). 2015. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Sense of presence inside a feared (virtual) tunnel

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Cláudio, A.P.). 2015. 2015 10th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2015
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The Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the ISMI Scale

Francisco Esteves & Sandra Oliveira (with Oliveira, S.E.H.). 2015. Community Mental Health Journal
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Using an Educational Multimedia Application to Prepare Children for Outpatient Surgeries

Francisco Esteves (with Fernandes, S.). 2015. Health Communication
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Will you thrive under pressure or burn out? Linking anxiety motivation and emotional exhaustion

Francisco Esteves (with Strack, J.). 2015. Cognition and Emotion
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100 anos depois: onde está o Watson?

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2014. Psicologia na Actualidade
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Adult Attachment, Love Styles, Relationship Experiences and Subjective Well-Being: Cross-Cultural and Gender Comparison between Americans, Portuguese, and Mozambicans

Francisco Esteves (with Galinha, I.C.). 2014. Social Indicators Research
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Children's attitudes regarding health care and perception of pain: The mediating role of medical fears,Atitudes infantis face aos cuidados de saúde e perceção de dor: Papel mediador dos medos médicos

Francisco Esteves (with Fernandes, S.C.). 2014. Ciencia e Saude Coletiva
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Clown Doctors in pediatric preoperative and recovery areas: effects on parental anxiety and on children's affective and behavioral responses

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2014. 1st International Conference on Pediatric Hospital Clown: reflections on research and training
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Effects of fear-relevant stimuli on attention: Integrating gaze data with subliminal exposure

Francisco Esteves (with Rosa, P.J.). 2014. IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)
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Looking at the (mis) fortunes of others while listening to music

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2014.
Book Chapter

On prototypical facial expressions vs variation in facial behavior: What Have We Learned on the “Visibility” of Emotions from Measuring Facial Actions in Humans and Apes

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Gaspar, Maria Augusta Duarte Gaspar). 2014. The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates: A Multidisciplinary Approach.
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Providing preoperative information for children undergoing surgery: a randomized study testing different types of educational material to reduce children’s preoperative worries

Francisco Esteves (with Fernandes, S. C.). 2014. Health Education Research
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Sensitization to emotional chills

Francisco Esteves (with Lavrador, L.). 2014. Second European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) Conference
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The brain mapping of emotion in human faces: Clinical aplication in epilepsy

Francisco Esteves (with Leal, A.). 2014.
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The brain mapping of emotion in human faces: Clinical application in epilepsy

Francisco Esteves (with Leal, A.). 2014. IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)
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The hidden snake in the grass: Superior detection of snakes in challenging attentional conditions

Francisco Esteves (with Soares, S.C.). 2014. PLoS ONE
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Temporal Invariance of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

Francisco Esteves (with Galinha, I.C.). 2013.
Book

Emotional gaming

Francisco Esteves (with Madeira, F.). 2013.
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Measuring store emotional experience through facial electromyography and skin conductance

Francisco Esteves (with Ângelo, L.). 2013.
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Playing for better or for worse?: Health and social outcomes with electronic gaming

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2013.
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The Role of Personality Traits, Attachment Style, and Satisfaction With Relationships in the Subjective Well-Being of Americans, Portuguese, and Mozambicans

Francisco Esteves (with Galinha, I.C.). 2013.
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Virtual environment to treat social anxiety

Francisco Esteves (with Cláudio, A.P.). 2013.
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Attachment insecurity and strategies for regulation: When emotion triggers attention

Francisco Esteves (with Silva, C.). 2012.
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Atypical moral judgment following traumatic brain injury

Francisco Esteves (with Martins, A.T.). 2012.
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Can humans read emotions in animal facial expressions?

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Ribeiro, A.). 2012. 9º Congresso Nacional de Etologia
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Changes in social emotion recognition following traumatic frontal lobe injury

Cláudia Simão & Francisco Esteves (with Martins, A.T.). 2012. Neural Regeneration Research
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Do humans read emotions in animal facial expressions?

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Ribeiro, A.). 2012. International Conference Minding Animals
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Do You know what I'm feeling? Children's Perception of Animal Emotions

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Rocha, S.). 2012. 9º Congresso Nacional de Etologia
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Evolutionary derived modulations of attention to two common fear stimuli: Serpents and hostile humans

Francisco Esteves (with Öhman, A.). 2012.
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How adolescents and adults interpret and react to dynamic pictures of facial expression? On the attunement and unattunement of different measures in the study of emotional empathy

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Esteves, F.). 2012. IVth European Conference on Facial Expression
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Is it just a game? Emotional and Behavioural outcomes of gaming with violence

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2012. Inequality and Violence Workshop 2012: Development, Perpetuation and Change
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Preschooler's faces in spontaneous emotional contexts-how well do they match adult facial expression prototypes?

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Gaspar, A.). 2012. International Journal of Behavioral Development
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Reactividade pupilar como indicador de activação fisiológica a estímulos de medo filogeneticamente relevantes

Francisco Esteves (with Rosa, P. J.). 2012. 7º Encontro Nacional da Associação de Psicologia Experimental
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Skin conductance vs appraisal of dynamic emotional stimuli

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Esteves, F.). 2012. 8th Congress of the Spanish Society for Psychophysiology and Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SEPNECA)
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The naturalistic approach revisited as a means to adress the pending question of what does spontaneuos facial expression look like in everyday life.

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Gaspar, M.). 2012. IVth European Conference on Facial Expression
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Ver ou não ver, eis a questão. A relação entre atenção visual selectiva e emoção.

Francisco Esteves (with Rosa, P.). 2012. In-Mind Português
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Violência a brincar e emoções face a vítimas reais: Um estudo experimental com jogos electrónicos

Francisco Esteves (with Madeira, A.). 2012. 7º Encontro Nacional da Associação de Psicologia Experimental
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Violent gaming, emotions and helping behavior towards victims of random violence

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2012. 8th Congress of the Sociedad Espanola de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva (SEPNECA)
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Virtual environments to cope with anxiety situations: Two case-studies

Francisco Esteves (with Cláudio, A.P.). 2012.
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Effects of Playing Violent Computer Games on Emotional Desensitization and Aggressive Behavior

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2011.
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Empathic Cross-paths: SCR and EMG responses to emotion in ape and Human faces. Does Species Matter?

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Gaspar, A.). 2011. the Society for Psychophysiological Research 51st Annual Meeting
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EMPATHIC CROSS-PATHS: SCR AND EMG RESPONSES TO EMOTION IN APE AND HUMAN FACES: DOES SPECIES MATTER?

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Gaspar, A.). 2011. 51st Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Psychophysiological-Research
Book

Playing with violence: An updated review on the effects of playing violent electronic games

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2011.
Other

Preparing children for surgery: Ready, Set, Go.

Francisco Esteves (with Costa Fernandes, S.). 2011. VI International PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology
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Pupillary reactivity as a measure of fear arousal to subliminally phylogenetically fear relevant stimuli

Francisco Esteves (with Rosa, P. J.). 2011. VI International PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology
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Traumatic brain injury patients: Does frontal brain lesion influence basic emotion recognition?

Cláudia Simão & Francisco Esteves (with Martins, A.T.). 2011. Psychology and Neuroscience
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Emotional Responses (verbal and psychophysiological) to pictures of food stimuli

Francisco Esteves (with Esteves, F.). 2010. Psicologia
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Introduction - moving emotion forward: from the ubiquity of emotion in mental processes to rewinding its origins

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Esteves, F.). 2010. Psicologia
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Fear, but not fear-relevance, modulates reaction times in visual search with animal distractors

Francisco Esteves (with Soares, S.C.). 2009.
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Some animal specific fears are more specific than others: Evidence from attention and emotion measures

Francisco Esteves (with Soares, S.C.). 2009.
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Are the effects of unreal violent video games pronounced when playing with a virtual reality system?

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2008.
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Factores mediadores e moderadores dos efeitos dos jogos electrónicos violentos na agressão interpessoal

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2008. Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia
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Introduction: one hundred year old questions, novel paradigms and new findings on emotion

Augusta Gaspar & Francisco Esteves (with Esteves, F.). 2008. Psicologia
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Skin conductance responses to visual sexual stimuli

Francisco Esteves (with Costa, R.M.). 2008.
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Analyzing false memories in children with associative lists specific for their age

Francisco Esteves (with Carneiro, P.). 2007.
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Skin conductance responses to masked conditioned stimuli: Phylogenetic/ontogenetic factors versus direction of threat?

Francisco Esteves (with Flykt, A.). 2007.
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Effet de l'exposition à des phéromones féminines sur la modification de l'humeur chez l'homme en fonction du contexte social,A putative female pheromone affects mood in men differently depending on social context

Francisco Esteves (with Olsson, M.J.). 2006. Revue europeenne de psychologie appliquee
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Jogos de computador violentos e seus efeitos na hostilidade, na ansiedade e na activação fisiológica

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2006. Revista Lusófona de Ciências da Mente e do Comportamento
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Violent computer games and their effects on state hostility and physiological arousal

Francisco Esteves (with Arriaga, P.). 2006.
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Detection of emotional faces: Low perceptual threshold and wide attentional span

Francisco Esteves (with Calvo, M.G.). 2005.
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The face of wrath: The role of features and configurations in conveying social treat

Francisco Esteves (with Lundqvist, D.). 2004.
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Psychological effects of subthreshold exposure to the putative human pheromone 4,16-androstadien-3-one

Francisco Esteves (with Lundström, J.N.). 2003.
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Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass.

Francisco Esteves (with Arne Öhman). 2001. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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The face in the crowd revisited: A threat advantage with schematic stimuli

Francisco Esteves (with Öhman, A.). 2001.
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Fear appears fast: Temporal course of startle reflex potentiation in animal fearful subjects

Francisco Esteves (with Globisch, J.). 1999.
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The face of wrath: Critical features for conveying facial threat

Francisco Esteves (with Lundqvist, D.). 1999.
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Preparedness and preattentive associative learning: Electrodermal conditioning to masked stimuli

Francisco Esteves (with Ohman, A.). 1995.
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Automatically Elicited Fear: Conditioned Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Facial Expressions

Francisco Esteves (with Esteves, F.). 1994. Cognition and Emotion
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Nonconscious associative learning: Pavlovian conditioning of skin conductance responses to masked fear-relevant facial stimuli

Francisco Esteves (with Esteves, F.). 1994.
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Masking the face: Recognition of emotional facial expressions as a function of the parameters of backward masking

Francisco Esteves (with ESTEVES, F.). 1993. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology