Stress, Affiliation, and Emotional Contagion

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 305-319

  Gump, Brooks B ^b   Kulik, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMITATION; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031067913     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.2.305     Document Type: Article

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