Emotion regulation and the cognitive-experimental approach to emotional dysfunction

Emotion Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-73

  MacLeod, Colin ^a   Bucks, Romola S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

anxiety; attentional bias; cognitive bias; emotional regulation; interpretive bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651410146     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073910380970     Document Type: Review

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