Distinguishing hope from optimism and related affective states

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 327-355

  Bruininks, Patricia ^a   Malle, Bertram F ^b  

^a HENDRIX COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Emotion; Folk psychology; Future oriented thinking; Hope; Multi dimensional scaling; Optimism; Positive psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746799335     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-006-9010-4     Document Type: Article

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