Incongruency effects in affective processing: Automatic motivational counter-regulation or mismatch-induced salience?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 413-425

  Rothermund, Klaus ^a   Gastspi Sup, Anne ^b   Wenturaspi Sup, Dirk ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective processing biases; Feedback; Goals; Motivation; Motivational control; Negativity bias; Positivity bias

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE PROCESSING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 79952720769     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.537075     Document Type: Article

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