Playing TETRIS for science counter-regulatory affective processing in a motivationally "hot" context

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-177

  Wentura, Dirk ^a   Voss, Andreas ^b   Rothermund, Klaus ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action regulation; Attentional biases; Emotion regulation; Flexibility; Negativity bias

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECREATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649343767     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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