Relationship between adult attachment patterns, emotional experience and EEG frontal asymmetry

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 909-920

  Rognoni, Elena ^a   Galati, Dario ^a   Costa, Tommaso ^a   Crini, Manuella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attachment; EEG; Emotion; Frontal asymmetry; Individual difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349083840     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.021     Document Type: Article

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