Counting to ten milliseconds: Low-anger, but not highanger, individuals pause following negative evaluations

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 261-281

  Robinson, Michael D ^a   Wilkowski, Benjamin M ^b   Meier, Brian P ^c   Moeller, Sara K ^a   Fetterman, Adam K ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect regulation; Affective processing; Anger; Personality

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84857328664     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.579088     Document Type: Article

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