Handedness and behavioural inhibition: Left-handed females show most inhibition as measured by BIS/BAS self-report

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-24

  Wright, Lynn ^a   Hardie, Scott M ^a   Wilson, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavioural activation (BAS); Behavioural inhibition (BIS); Gender; Handedness; RST

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849409360     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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