Looking at the Bright Side: The Affective Monitoring of Direction

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 729-733

  Phaf, R Hans ^a   Rotteveel, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

affective monitoring; approach avoidance task; direction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; AWARENESS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INSTINCT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350133781     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016308     Document Type: Article

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