The Lasting Effect of Words on Feelings: Words May Facilitate Exposure Effects to Threatening Images

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 307-317

  Tabibnia, Golnaz ^a   Lieberman, Matthew D ^a   Craske, Michelle G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion regulation; exposure; fear; language; psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; AVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEELING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; WORD;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 44949179376     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.3.307     Document Type: Article

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