Threat Facilitates Subsequent Executive Control During Anxious Mood

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1291-1304

  Birk, Jeffrey L ^a   Dennis, Tracy A ^b   Shin, Lisa M ^a,c   Urry, Heather L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual competition framework; Executive control; Low level threat; State anxiety; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; THREAT;

AFFECT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755163594     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026152     Document Type: Article

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