The Effects of Subliminal Anger and Sadness Primes on Agency Appraisals

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 915-922

  Yang, Zixu ^a   Tong, Eddie M W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Agency appraisals; Anger; Emotion; Sadness; Subliminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHINA; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SADNESS; SINGAPORE;

ANGER; COGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650681751     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020306     Document Type: Article

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