Attachment, attention, and cognitive control: Attachment style and performance on general attention tasks

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 647-654

  Gillath, Omri ^a   Giesbrecht, Barry ^b   Shaver, Phillip R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment style; Attention; Avoidance; Flanker task; Priming; PRP

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650733097     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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