Temperament and early information processing: Temperament-related attentional bias in emotional Stroop tasks

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1063-1073

  Mauer, Nadine ^a   Borkenau, Peter ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approach temperament; Attention; Avoidance temperament; Emotional Stroop task; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447282515     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.02.025     Document Type: Article

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