Emotion, emotion regulation, and conflict resolution

Emotion Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 68-76

  Halperin, Eran ^a  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

conflict resolution; emotion; emotion regulation; intergroup conflicts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898442582     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073913491844     Document Type: Article

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