Personality and modulation of the startle reflex by emotionally-toned filmclips

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1029-1041

  Kumari, Veena ^a   Corr, Philip J ^a,b   Wilson, Glenn D ^a   Kaviani, Hossein ^a   Thornton, Jasper C ^a   Checkley, Stuart A ^a   Gray, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030527347     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(96)00157-2     Document Type: Article

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