Measuring affective clarity indirectly: Individual differences in response latencies of state affect ratings

Emotion

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 431-445

  Lischetzke, Tanja ^a   Cuccodoro, Ghislaine ^a   Gauger, Anja ^a   Todeschini, Laure ^a   Eid, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affective clarity; Indirect measurement; Mood regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FILM; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWITZERLAND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AFFECT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 29444446219     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.4.431     Document Type: Article

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