What are emotions? and how can they be measured?

Social Science Information

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 695-729

  Scherer, Klaus R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affective processes; Emotion; Feeling; Folk concepts of emotion; Measurement of emotion; Scientific concepts of emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944495684     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018405058216     Document Type: Review

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