New perspectives in attentional control theory

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 955-960

  Eysenck, Michael W ^a   Derakshan, Nazanin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional control; Distractibility; Performance effectiveness; Processing efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952623092     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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