Deliberate real-time mood regulation in adulthood: The importance of age, fixation and attentional functioning

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 998-1013

  Noh, Soo Rim ^a   Lohani, Monika ^a   Isaacowitz, Derek M ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Attentional functioning; Gaze; Mood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80052437780     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.541668     Document Type: Article

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