What you are feeling and why: Two distinct types of emotional clarity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 652-656

  Boden, Matthew Tyler ^a   Berenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Emotional awareness; Emotional clarity; Source of emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960432463     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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