The effects of reward and punishment on response disinhibition, moods, heart rate and skin conductance level during instrumental learning

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 305-316

  Gomez, Rapson ^a   McLaren, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

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EID: 0031206105     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00031-7     Document Type: Article

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