Motivation matters: Differing effects of pre-goal and post-goal emotions on attention and memory

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Kaplan, Robin L ^a   Van Damme, Ilse ^a,b   Levine, Linda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arousal; Emotion; Goal relevance; Memory narrowing; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870956040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00404     Document Type: Article

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