Being a grump only makes things worse: A transactional account of acute stress on mind wandering

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Vinski, Melaina T ^a   Watter, Scott ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Mind wandering; Negative mood; Pupil diameter; Transactional model of stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889647858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00730     Document Type: Article

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