Emotional reactions to achievement outcomes: Is it really best to expect the worst?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-63

  Marshall, Margaret A ^a   Brown, Jonathon D ^b  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

EID: 31844432692     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930500215116     Document Type: Article

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