Threat and Defense. From Anxiety to Approach.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 219-286

  Jonas, Eva ^a   McGregor, Ian ^b   Klackl, Johannes ^a   Agroskin, Dmitrij ^a   Fritsche, Immo ^c   Holbrook, Colin ^d   Nash, Kyle ^e   Proulx, Travis ^f   Quirin, Markus ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Approach; Defense; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890282662     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800052-6.00004-4     Document Type: Chapter

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