The contributions of interoceptive awareness to cognitive and affective facets of body experience

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 110-118

  Duschek, Stefan ^a   Werner, Natalie S ^b   Reyes Del Paso, Gustavo A ^c   Schandry, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

body consciousness; body image; cardiac perception; interoception; interoceptive awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927925641     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: 21512299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000165     Document Type: Article

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