Effects of fear on risk and control judgements and memory: Implications for health promotion messages

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1049-1069

  Lench, Heather C ^a   Levine, Linda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONTROL;

EID: 28244491982     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930500203112     Document Type: Article

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