Mood-induced shifts in attentional bias to emotional information predict ill- and well-being

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-248

  Cavanagh, Sarah R ^a   Urry, Heather L ^b   Shin, Lisa M ^c  

^a ASSUMPTION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Emotion induction

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLLEGE STUDENT; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; WELLBEING;

AFFECT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955150391     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022572     Document Type: Article

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