Effects of intensive mobile happiness reporting in daily life

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 315-323

  Conner, Tamlin S ^a   Reid, Katie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Emotion; Experience sampling method; Happiness; Short messaging service (SMS); Text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859220833     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611419677     Document Type: Article

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