Happiness by association: Breadth of free association influences affective states

Cognition

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-98

  Brunyé, Tad T ^a,b   Gagnon, Stephanie A ^a,b,d   Paczynski, Martin ^a   Shenhav, Amitai ^c   Mahoney, Caroline R ^a,b   Taylor, Holly A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army NSRDEC   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Association; Creativity; Depression; Positive psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SNEEZING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; FREE ASSOCIATION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873877305     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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