Using affective pictures instead of white noise: Still different response patterns for Petrie-style augmenters and reducers?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-262

  Schwerdtfeger, Andreas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective pictures; Augmenting reducing; Psychophysiological reactivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037290757     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00041-7     Document Type: Article

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