Preference for negative emotions

Emotion

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 326-329

  Västfjäll, Daniel ^a,b   Gärling, Tommy ^b  

^a Decision Research   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affect; Choice; Decision making; Emotion; Judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; AFFECT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33745945313     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.2.326     Document Type: Article

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