Anxiety promotes memory for mood-congruent faces but does not alter loss aversion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Charpentier, Caroline J ^a,b   Hindocha, Chandni ^a,b   Roiser, Jonathan P ^a   Robinson, Oliver J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOWMENT EFFECT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GAMBLING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MEMORY; MEMORY BIAS; MODEL; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964858054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24746     Document Type: Article

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