Neuroticism and avoidance of ambiguous stimuli: Better safe than sorry?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1001-1006

  Lommen, Miriam J J ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a   van den Hout, Marcel A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Cognitive; Information processing; Neuroticism; PTSD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956870179     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.08.012     Document Type: Article

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