Identifying the cognitive basis of mental toughness: Evidence from the directed forgetting paradigm

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 587-590

  Dewhurst, Stephen A ^a   Anderson, Rachel J ^a   Cotter, Grace ^a   Crust, Lee ^b   Clough, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive inhibition; Directed forgetting; Mental toughness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863781027     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.036     Document Type: Article

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