Guarding Against Hostile Thoughts: Trait Anger and the Recruitment of Cognitive Control

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 578-583

  Wilkowski, Benjamin M ^a   Robinson, Michael D ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive control; emotion regulation; hostile thoughts; trait anger

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; SELF CONTROL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

ADULT; ANGER; COGNITION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; THINKING;

EID: 50849122029     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.4.578     Document Type: Article

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