Creative production by angry people peaks early on, decreases over time, and is relatively unstructured

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1107-1115

  Baas, Matthijs ^a   De Dreu, Carsten K W ^a   Nijstad, Bernard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anger; Creativity; Emotion; Information processing; Resource depletion; Sadness

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051865010     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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