Gelotophobia, emotion-related skills and responses to the affective states of others

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-63

  Papousek, Ilona ^a   Ruch, Willibald ^b   Freudenthaler, H Harald ^a   Kogler, Eva ^a   Lang, Brigitte ^a   Schulter, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotional contagion; Gelotophobia; Perception of emotions; Regulation of emotions; Trait emotional intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749131577     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.047     Document Type: Article

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