Cognitive tendencies of focusing on positive and negative information

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 891-910

  Noguchi, Kenji ^a   Gohm, Carol L ^a   Dalsky, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Individual differences; Negative valence; Positive valence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750842671     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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