The fading affect bias across alcohol consumption frequency for alcohol-related and non-alcohol-related events

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1340-1351

  Gibbons, Jeffrey A ^a   Toscano, Angela ^a   Kofron, Stephanie ^a   Rothwell, Christine ^a   Lee, Sherman A ^a   Ritchie, Timothy D ^b   Walker, W Richard ^c  

^a CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Autobiographical memory; Coping; Emotions; Fading affect bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DYSPHORIA; EMOTION; FADING AFFECT BIAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER;

ALCOHOL; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COPING; EMOTIONS; FADING AFFECT BIAS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884953608     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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