Coping with Threat and Memory for Ambiguous Information: Testing the Repressive Discontinuity Hypothesis

Emotion

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-86

  Hock, Michael ^a   Krohne, Heinz Walter ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; SENSITIZATION; THREAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; FEAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRESSION;

EID: 1642299870     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.4.1.65     Document Type: Article

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