A premature consensus: Are happiness and sadness truly opposite affects?

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Rafaeli, Eshkol ^a   Revelle, William ^b  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Bipolarity; Circumplex; Mood; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747885112     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-006-9004-2     Document Type: Article

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