Priming the trait category "hostility": The moderating role of trait anxiety

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 577-595

  Maier, Markus A ^a   Berner, Michael P ^b   Hau, Robin C ^c   Pekrun, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34247630031     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930600652333     Document Type: Article

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