Do sadness-primes make me work harder because they make me sad?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 158-165

  Lasauskaite, Ruta ^a   Gendolla, Guido H E ^a   Silvestrini, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Implicit affect; Mental effort; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL CAPACITY; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SAD; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; REPETITION PRIMING; SWITZERLAND; WORK;

EID: 84874311766     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2012.689756     Document Type: Article

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