The Cognitive Consequences of Envy: Attention, Memory, and Self-Regulatory Depletion

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 653-666

  Hill, Sarah E ^a   DelPriore, Danielle J ^a   Vaughan, Phillip W ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Envy; Evolutionary psychology; Social cognition; Social comparisons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROL; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MALE; MEMORY; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PEER GROUP; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053263694     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023904     Document Type: Article

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