Differential Emotional Responding to Ideographic Cues of Traumatic Interpersonal Violence Compared to Non-Interpersonal Traumatic Experiences

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 400-417

  Badour, Christal L ^a   Feldner, Matthew T ^a   Babson, Kimberly A ^a,b   Smith, Rose C ^a,c   Blumenthal, Heidemarie ^a   Trainor, Casey D ^a,d   Bunaciu, Liviu ^a   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anger; disgust; emotion; Interpersonal violence; script driven imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860641617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.014711     Document Type: Article

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