The interactive role of worried mood and trait anxiety in the selective processing of subliminally presented threat words

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1195-1204

  Jansson, Billy ^a   Lundh, Lars Gunnar ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Trait anxiety; Worried mood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748437781     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.03.026     Document Type: Article

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