Incidental anger and the desire to evaluate

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-65

  Wiltermuth, Scott S ^a   Tiedens, Larissa Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Anger; Decision making; Emotion; Evaluation; Judgment; Mood; Preference; Task choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960843610     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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