When stepping outside the self is not enough: A self-distanced perspective reduces the experience of basic but not of self-conscious emotions

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1089-1092

  Katzir, Maayan ^a   Eyal, Tal ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Basic emotions; Emotion regulation; Self conscious emotions; Self perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882781596     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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