Avoidant attachment and hemispheric lateralisation of the processing of attachment- and emotion-related words

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 799-813

  Cohen, Michael X ^a   Shaver, Phillip R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; ERROR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 4544245940     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930341000266     Document Type: Article

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