Reality bites - Or does it? Realistic self-views buffer negative mMood following social threat

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1079-1080

  Thomaes, Sander ^a   Reijntjes, Albert ^a   Orobio De Castro, Bram ^a   Bushman, Brad J ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; EGO; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; SELF CONCEPT; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; CHILD; EMOTIONS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; REALITY TESTING; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 69549098115     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02395.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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