Can happy mood reduce the just world bias? Affective influences on blaming the victim

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 239-243

  Goldenberg, Liz ^a   Forgas, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attribution; Just world bias; Mood; Social judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655162103     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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