What You Feel Is How You Compare: How Comparisons Influence the Social Induction of Affect

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Epstude, Kai ^a,b   Mussweiler, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

emotional contagion; mood; social comparison; socially induced affect

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 60749107782     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014148     Document Type: Article

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