Affective monitoring: A generic mechanism for affect elicitation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Phaf, R Hans ^a   Rotteveel, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affect; Consciousness; Emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867058031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00047     Document Type: Article

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