Conceptual, Methodological, and Empirical Ambiguities in the Linkage Between Anger and Approach: Comment on Carver and Harmon-Jones (2009)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 209-214

  Tomarken, Andrew J ^a   Zald, David H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affective neuroscience; anger; anterior asymmetry; approach; emotion

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANGER; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; FEAR; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REWARD;

AFFECT; ANGER; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEAR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MOTIVATION; REWARD;

EID: 61849123734     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014735     Document Type: Article

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