Beyond valence: The differential effect of masked anger and sadness stimuli on effort-related cardiac response

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 665-671

  Freydefont, Laure ^a   Gendolla, Guido H E ^a   Silvestrini, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active coping; Anger; Cardiovascular reactivity; Effort; Implicit affect priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859619936     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01340.x     Document Type: Article

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