Cueing of visual attention by emotional facial expressions: The influence of individual differences in anxiety and depression

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 329-339

  Koster, Ernst H W ^a   Leyman, Lemke ^a   Raedt, Rudi De ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Depression; Tripartite model; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646385373     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.12.022     Document Type: Article

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