Emotional Gestalts: Appraisal, Change, and the Dynamics of Affect

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 274-282

  Thagard, Paul ^a   Nerb, Josef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0036441454     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0604_02     Document Type: Article

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