Hiding feelings: The acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotion

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-103

  Gross, James J ^a,b   Levenson, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXCITABILITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FILM; HAPPINESS; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

EID: 0031058307     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.106.1.95     Document Type: Article

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