Consequences of socially sharing emotions: Testing the emotion-response congruency hypothesis

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1310-1324

  Wetzer, Inge M ^a   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^a   Pieters, Rik ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 36749072736     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.396     Document Type: Review

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