Beyond a single pattern of mixed emotional experience sequential, prevalence, inverse, and simultaneous

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-67

  Oceja, Luis ^a,b   Carrera, Pilar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Psicologia Social C/Ivan Pavlov   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emotional ambivalence; Emotional patterns; Mixed emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 62449294636     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759.25.1.58     Document Type: Article

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