Can the simultaneous experience of opposing emotions really occur?

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-30

  Brehm, Jack W ^a   Miron, Anca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambivalence; Deterrence; Emotion; Intensity of emotion; Mixed feelings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747881502     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-006-9007-z     Document Type: Review

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