Continuous monitoring of affective-autonomic response dissociation in repressers during negative emotional stimulation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-84

  Brosschot, Jos F ^a   Janssen, Erick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous affective autonomic response dissociation; Negative emotions; Psychological defense; Represser coping style

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032114367     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00056-7     Document Type: Article

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