Counter-regulation and control-dependency: Affective processing biases in the service of action regulation

Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-66

  Rothermund, Klaus ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action regulation; Affective processing; Automaticity; Disengagement; Flexibility; Negativity bias; Persistence; Positivity bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955115454     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000043     Document Type: Article

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