Attentional control capacity for emotion: An individual-difference measure of internal controlled attention

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1516-1536

  Johnson, Dan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Emotion regulation; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 71049186349     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802437095     Document Type: Article

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