Emotional experience in the mornings and the evenings: Consideration of age differences in specific emotions by time of day

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  English, Tammy ^a   Carstensen, Laura L ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Aging; Circumplex model; Discrete emotions; Emotional experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897939310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00185     Document Type: Article

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