Stopping anger and anxiety: Evidence that inhibitory ability predicts negative emotional responding

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 132-142

  Tang, David ^a   Schmeichel, Brandon J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Executive functioning; Inhibition; Reactivity; Stop signal task

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGER; ANXIETY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY, EPISODIC; PERSONALITY INVENTORY;

EID: 84890436638     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.799459     Document Type: Article

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