Mood impact on cardiovascular reactivity when task difficulty is unclear

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 239-248

  Richter, Michael ^a   Gendolla, Guido H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Instrumentality; Mood; Reward; Unclear task difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 71349083746     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-009-9134-4     Document Type: Article

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