Plain texts as an online mood-induction procedure

Social Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-15

  Verheyen, Christopher ^a   Goritz, Anja S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mood induction; Non self report mood measure; Online experiment; Subjective probabilities of negative life events; Word pleasantness ratings

Indexed keywords

EID: 62449228133     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335.40.1.6     Document Type: Article

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