Resilience in the face of romantic rejection: The automatic impulse to trust

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 845-854

  Murray, Sandra L ^a   Lupien, Shannon P ^a   Seery, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic attitude; IAT; Rejection; Trust; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862182491     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.02.016     Document Type: Article

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