EEG asymmetry, dispositional mood and personality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 541-568

  Hagemann, Dirk ^a   Naumann, Ewald ^a   Lürken, Alexander ^a   Becker, Gabriele ^a   Maier, Stefanie ^a   Bartussek, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

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EID: 0001409129     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00263-3     Document Type: Article

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