Affective forecasts and the Valentine's day shootings at NIU: People are resilient, but unaware of it

Journal of Positive Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 275-280

  Hartnett, Jessica L ^a   Skowronski, John J ^b  

^a GANNON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective forecasting; Emotions; Resilience; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955254660     PISSN: 17439760     EISSN: 17439779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2010.498615     Document Type: Article

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