The impact of extraversion on attentional bias to pleasant stimuli: neuroticism matters

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 721-731

  Lou, Yixue ^a,b   Meng, Xianxin ^c   Yang, Jiemin ^a,b   Zhang, Shu ^a,b   Long, Quanshan ^a,b   Yuan, Jiajin ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Event related potentials; Extraversion; Neuroticism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958049066     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4492-5     Document Type: Article

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