How do thoughts differ from feelings? Putting the differences into words

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-23

  Ickes, William ^a   Cheng, Wen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Feelings; Linguistic analysis; Thoughts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 78651230554     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690961003603046     Document Type: Article

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