There is a fire burning in my heart: The role of causal attribution in affect transfer

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 156-163

  Oikawa, Masanori ^a   Aarts, Henk ^b   Oikawa, Haruka ^c  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affect misattribution procedure; Affect transfer; Affective priming; Attribution; Diffuseness distinctness of affect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURN; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFFECT; CAUSALITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 78651235133     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931003680061     Document Type: Article

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