It's all in your head - how anticipating evaluation affects the processing of emotional trait adjectives

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Schindler, Sebastian ^a   Wegrzyn, Martin ^a   Steppacher, Inga ^a   Kissler, Johanna ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

communicative context; EEG ERP; emotion; feedback anticipation; language; social feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921860988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01292     Document Type: Article

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