Negative emotions make positive emotions more salient in well-being appraisal

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 557-567

  Cheng, Sheung Tak ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Affect; Contrast; Endowment; Goal discrepancy; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844438305     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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