Emotions that associate with uncertainty lead to structured ideation

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1004-1014

  Baas, Matthijs ^a   de Dreu, Carsten ^a   Nijstad, Bernard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Emotion; Idea generation; Information processing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTROSPECTION; MALE; STRUCTURED IDEATION; THINKING; UNCERTAINTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84873514974     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027358     Document Type: Article

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