Guilt and focusing in decision-making

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Gangemi, Amelia ^a,b,d   Mancini, Francesco ^a,c  

^a Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva (APC)   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c APC   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognition; Emotion; Focusing; Guilt; Mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846491837     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.536     Document Type: Article

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