Doing the unpleasant: How the emotional nature of a threat-relevant task affects task-switching

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 350-355

  Paulitzki, Jeffrey R ^a   Risko, Evan F ^a   Oakman, Jonathan M ^a   Stolz, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Emotion; Executive control; Individual differences; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049128166     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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