Can't suppress this feeling: Automatic negative evaluations of somatosensory stimuli are related to the experience of somatic symptom distress

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 640-649

  Witthöft, Michael ^a   Basfeld, Cora ^a   Steinhoff, Maike ^b   Gerlach, Alexander L ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect misattribution procedure (AMP); Implicit cognition; Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS); Somatoform disorders; Somatosensory amplification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT MISATTRIBUTION PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; AFFECT; EMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFECT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863512049     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024924     Document Type: Article

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