Well-being and the accessibility of pleasant and unpleasant concepts

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-189

  Borkenau, Peter ^a   Mauer, Nadine ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concept accessibility; Lexical decision task; Reliability; Trait affect

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947596857     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.613     Document Type: Article

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