What is approach motivation?

Emotion Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 291-295

  Harmon Jones, Eddie ^a   Harmon Jones, Cindy ^a   Price, Tom F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

anger; approach motivation; emotion; startle eyeblink

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879437252     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073913477509     Document Type: Article

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