Adult attachment and motivated attention to social images: Attachment-based differences in event-related brain potentials to emotional images

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-62

  Chavis, J M ^a   Kisley, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Attention; Emotion; Emotional images; Event related brain potentials; Late positive potential; Negativity bias; Social perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857142846     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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