Discrete emotions predict changes in cognition, judgment, experience, behavior, and physiology: A meta-analysis of experimental emotion elicitations

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 834-855

  Lench, Heather C ^a   Flores, Sarah A ^a   Bench, Shane W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete emotion; Emotion elicitation; Emotion manipulation; Emotion theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80052238995     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024244     Document Type: Article

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