Emotional targets: Evaluative categorization as a function of context and content

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-154

  Weinberg, Anna ^a   Hilgard, Joseph ^b   Bartholow, Bruce D ^b   Hajcak, Greg ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Late positive potential; LPP; Negativity bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860282206     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: 18727697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.01.023     Document Type: Article

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