Is Running Away Right? The Behavioral Activation-Behavioral Inhibition Model of Anterior Asymmetry

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 232-249

  Wacker, Jan ^a   Chavanon, Mira Lynn ^a   Leue, Anja ^a   Stemmler, Gerhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

anxiety; electroencephalography; fear; frontal asymmetry; laterality; motivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEAR; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN MAPPING; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; FRONTAL LOBE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPIRATION; RUNNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 43549109268     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.2.232     Document Type: Article

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