Personality and Information Processing: We Are What We Encode

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 158-163

  Mathews, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Automatic and controlled processing; Cognitive bias modification; Emotionality; Information processing biases; Interpretation; Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858714478     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1852     Document Type: Article

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