Mood and information processing: When happy and sad look the same

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 223-255

  Handley, Ian M ^a   Lassiter, G Daniel ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information processing; Mood; Persuasion; Stimulus valence; Unitization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036933467     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021725130325     Document Type: Article

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