Aggression-hostility predicts direction of defensive responses to human threat scenarios

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-147

  MacLaren, Vance V ^a   Best, Lisa A ^a   Bigney, Erin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anger; Anxiety; Fear; Reinforcement sensitivity theory; ZKPQ

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952548497     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.024     Document Type: Article

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