On Being Happy and Mistaken: Mood Effects on the Fundamental Attribution Error

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 318-331

  Forgas, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0032135078     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.2.318     Document Type: Article

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