Asymmetries in the processing of emotionally valenced words

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 97-104

  Dahl, Mats ^a  

^a Box 213 ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affect; Emotional words; Encoding asymmetry; Mobilization minimization hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SWEDEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0035318415     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00218     Document Type: Article

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