Feeling Blue or Turquoise? Emotional Differentiation in Major Depressive Disorder

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1410-1416

  Demiralp, Emre ^a   Thompson, Renee J ^b   Mata, Jutta ^b   Jaeggi, Susanne M ^c   Buschkuehl, Martin ^a,c   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^d,e   Ellsworth, Phoebe C ^a   Demiralp, Metin ^f   Hernandez Garcia, Luis ^a   Deldin, Patricia J ^a   Gotlib, Ian H ^b   Jonides, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

depression; emotional control; emotions; happiness; individual differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869237539     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612444903     Document Type: Article

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