How distinctive is affective processing? On the implications of using cognitive paradigms to study affect and emotion

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1137-1154

  Eder, Andreas B ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^b   De Houwer, Jan ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AFFECT; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FIGHTING; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; LONELINESS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 34548331158     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930701437386     Document Type: Article

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