Masked affective stimuli moderate task difficulty effects on effort-related cardiovascular response

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1157-1164

  Silvestrini, Nicolas ^a   Gendolla, Guido H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active coping; Cardiovascular reactivity; Effort; Implicit affect; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955912608     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01181.x     Document Type: Article

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