Perceiving control over aversive and fearful events can alter how we experience those events: An investigation of time perception in spider-fearful individuals

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Buetti, Simona ^a   Lleras, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion and cognition; Emotion regulation; Feeling of control; Spider fearful; Time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867054397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00337     Document Type: Article

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