The bottle is half empty and that's bad, but not tragic: Differential effects of negative functional reappraisal

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 550-563

  Cristea, Ioana A ^a,b   Szentagotai Tatar, Aurora ^a   Nagy, Diana ^a   David, Daniel ^a,c  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Irrational beliefs; Negative emotions; Positive emotions; Reappraisal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869025221     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9277-6     Document Type: Article

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