A grateful heart is a nonviolent heart: Cross-sectional, experience sampling, longitudinal, and experimental evidence

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 232-240

  Dewall, C Nathan ^a   Lambert, Nathaniel M ^b   Pond, Richard S ^a   Kashdan, Todd B ^c   Fincham, Frank D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Emotion; Interpersonal processes; Interpersonal relationships; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856487368     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611416675     Document Type: Review

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