Self-regulatory interplay between negative and positive emotions: The case of loneliness and nostalgia

Emotion Regulation and Well-Being

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 67-83

  Wildschut, Tim ^a   Sedikides, Constantine ^a   Cordaro, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6953-8_5     Document Type: Chapter

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