Approach, avoidance, and inhibition: Personality traits predict cognitive control abilities

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 439-444

  Prabhakaran, Ranjani ^a   Kraemer, David J M ^a   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach; Avoidance; Cognitive control; Individual differences; Inhibition; Motivation; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959359176     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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