Attentional Bias for Emotional Information in Older Adults: The Role of Emotion and Future Time Perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Demeyer, Ineke ^a   De Raedt, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE SCALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONELINESS; MALE; MOOD; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84878639364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065429     Document Type: Article

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