Human responses to disasters: A pilot study on peritraumatic emotional and cognitive processing

Europe's Journal of Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 112-138

  Grimm, Anna ^a   Hulse, Lynn ^b   Schmidt, Silke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural development; Disaster research; Peritraumatic emotion and cognition; Pilot study; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858630069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18410413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v8i1.303     Document Type: Article

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