Individual Differences in Executive Functioning and Their Relationship to Emotional Processes and Responses

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 93-98

  Schmeichel, Brandon J ^a   Tang, David ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion regulation; executive functioning; inhibition; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926428869     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414555178     Document Type: Article

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