Ego involvement moderates the assimilation effect of affective expectations

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 213-220

  Gendolla, Guido H E ^a   Brinkmann, Kerstin ^a   Scheder, Dorothea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective expectations; Ego involvement; Mental effort

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549091849     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-008-9098-9     Document Type: Article

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