The Pleasure of Unadulterated Sadness: Experiencing Sorrow in Fiction, Nonfiction, and "In Person"

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 232-237

  Goldstein, Thalia R ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; fiction; film; nonfiction

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149127914     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015343     Document Type: Article

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