Individual differences in emotional reactivity moderate the strength of the relationship between attentional and implicit-memory biases towards threat-related stimuli

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 715-724

  Matusz, Pawel J ^a,b   Traczyk, Jakub ^c   Sobkow, Agata ^c   Strelau, Jan ^c  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Attention memory relationship; Cognitive biases; Emotional reactivity; Temperament; Threat processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BIAS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MEMORY BIAS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULATION; STRENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERAMENT; THREAT; VALIDITY; AUDITORY CORTEX; COGNITION; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); REGULATORY MECHANISM; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84937074115     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2015.1027210     Document Type: Article

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