Clear heads are cool heads: Emotional clarity and the down-regulation of antisocial affect

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 308-326

  Wilkowski, Benjamin M ^a   Robinson, Michael D ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYBERNETICS; DOWN REGULATION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 38049159743     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930701394199     Document Type: Article

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