The sex differences in regulating unpleasant emotion by expressive suppression: Extraversion matters

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2016, Pages

  Cai, Ayan ^a   Lou, Yixue ^a   Long, Quanshan ^a   Yuan, Jiajin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Expressive suppression; Extraversion; Late positive potentials; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982263935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01011     Document Type: Article

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