Cognitive avoidance, positive affect, and gender as predictors of the processing of aversive information

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1572-1584

  Krohne, Heinz Walter ^a   Hock, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective pictures; Cognitive avoidance; Gender differences; Repressive discontinuity; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349109853     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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