How goal-fulfillment decreases aggression

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-100

  Denzler, Markus ^a   Förster, Jens ^a   Liberman, Nira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Aggression; Catharsis; Goal fulfillment; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549084441     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.021     Document Type: Article

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