Who feels more ambivalence? Linking dialectical thinking to mixed emotions

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 493-498

  Hui, Chin Ming ^a   Fok, Hung Kit ^b   Bond, Michael Harris ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cognitive style; Dialectical thinking; Mixed emotions; Response bias; Self construals

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249110793     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.11.022     Document Type: Article

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