Do Victims of Injustice Punish to Improve Their Mood?

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 572-580

  Gollwitzer, Mario ^a   Bushman, Brad J ^b,c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aggression; emotion; emotion regulation; ethics morality; justice; mood; self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865185383     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611430552     Document Type: Article

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