Counter-Regulation in Affective Attentional Biases: A Basic Mechanism That Warrants Flexibility in Emotion and Motivation

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-46

  Rothermund, Klaus ^a   Voss, Andreas ^b   Wentura, Dirk ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

action regulation; attentional biases; emotion regulation; flexibility; negativity bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 39649092985     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.1.34     Document Type: Article

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