ERP responses to facial affect in low-anxious, high-anxious, repressors and defensive high-anxious individuals

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 961-976

  Fajkowska, Małgorzata ^a   Eysenck, Michael W ^b   Zagórska, Anna ^c   Jaśkowski, Piotr ^d  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional biases; Defensiveness; Event related brain potentials

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952621054     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.023     Document Type: Article

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