Trait-anxiety and repressors: Suppression of recall for aversive images

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 552-564

  Johnson, Douglas C ^a   Craske, Michelle ^b   Aikins, Deane ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Repressors; Thought suppression; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749137439     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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