Adult attachment avoidance and automatic affective response to sad facial expressions

Australian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 181-187

  Thomas, Suslow ^a,b   Dannlowski, Udo ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult attachment; Affective priming; Affective response; Emotion; Mood; Personality processes and individual differences; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149430745     PISSN: 00049530     EISSN: 17429536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049530903567203     Document Type: Article

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