Affecting others: Social appraisal and emotion contagion in everyday decision making

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1071-1084

  Parkinson, Brian ^a   Simons, Gwenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect transfer; Decision making; Emotion contagion; Social appraisal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69149090080     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209336611     Document Type: Article

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