Recall and recognition of threatening, pleasant, and neutral words in repressors

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-14

  Brosschot, Jos F ^a   De Ruiter, Corine ^b   Kindt, Merel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Dr Henri van der Hoeven Clinic   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

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EID: 0033249411     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0984(199901/02)13:1<1::AID-PER313>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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