Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 530-544

  Vrtička, Pascal ^a   Sander, David ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adult attachment style; arousal versus control versus pleasantness; emotion processing; positive versus negative; social versus non social

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866259032     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: 14603608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407512443451     Document Type: Article

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