Don't grin when you win: The social costs of positive emotion expression in performance situations

Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 180-186

  Kalokerinos, Elise K ^a   Greenaway, Katharine H ^a   Pedder, David J ^b   Margetts, Elise A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotion expression; Emotion regulation; Expressive suppression; Impression formation john; Outperformance

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EMPATHY; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895073557     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034442     Document Type: Article

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