Looking at the sunny side of life: Age-related change in an event-related potential measure of the negativity bias

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 838-843

  Kisley, Michael A ^a   Wood, Stacey ^b   Burrows, Christina L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PREJUDICE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548202369     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01988.x     Document Type: Article

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