Mad enough to see the other side: Anger and the search for disconfirming information

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-21

  Young, Maia J ^a   Tiedens, Larissa Z ^b   Jung, Heajung ^a   Tsai, Ming Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action tendency; Anger; Argumentative; Confirmation bias; Selective information

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANGER; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 78651253795     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903534105     Document Type: Article

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