Adult attachment and preemptive defenses: Converging evidence on the role of defensive exclusion at the level of encoding

Journal of Personality

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1033-1050

  Fraley, R Chris ^a   Brumbaugh, Claudia Chloe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; REPRESSION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34548229093     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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