Sad mood promotes self-initiated mental contrasting of future and reality

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1206-1222

  Kappes, Heather Barry ^a   Oettingen, Gabriele ^a,b   Mayer, Doris ^b   Maglio, Sam ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Expectations; Goals; Indulging; Mental contrasting; Mood; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; EGO; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CONTRASTING; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SADNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; MUSIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053936471     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023983     Document Type: Article

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