Driven to tears or to joy: Response dominance and trait-based predictions

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 629-640

  Robinson, Michael D ^a   Goetz, Mark C ^b   Wilkowski, Benjamin M ^a   Hoffman, Scott J ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Extraversion; Neuroticism; Reaction time; Traitedness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTION; EXTRAVERSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HABIT; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LACRIMAL FLUID; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FEMALE; HABITS; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF EFFICACY; SEMANTICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS; TEARS;

EID: 33645771180     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205284283     Document Type: Article

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