The Emotionally Intelligent Decision Maker: Emotion-Understanding Ability Reduces the Effect of Incidental Anxiety on Risk Taking

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-55

  Yip, Jeremy A ^a   Côté, Stéphane ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

anxiety; decision making; emotion control; emotion understanding; emotional intelligence; emotions; risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872333050     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612450031     Document Type: Article

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