Anger and social appraisal: A "spicy" sex difference?

Emotion

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 258-266

  Evers, Catharine ^a,e   Fischer, Agneta H ^a   Rodriguez Mosquera, Patricia M ^a,d   Manstead, Antony S R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anger; Appraisal; Emotion; Regulation; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONTROL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL APPRAISAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPICE;

ADULT; ANGER; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 26444487394     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.3.258     Document Type: Article

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