Attentional Consequences of Pregoal and Postgoal Positive Affects

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1358-1367

  Gable, Philip A ^a   Harmon Jones, Eddie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b TEXAS AANDM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach motivation; Attention; Broadening; Emotions; Narrowing; Positive affect

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY;

AFFECT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GOALS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 83755163576     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025611     Document Type: Article

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