Follow Your Heart: Emotion Adaptively Influences Perception

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 296-308

  Stefanucci, Jeanine K ^a   Gagnon, Kyle T ^a   Lessard, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 79959679362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00352.x     Document Type: Article

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