Capitalizing on the success of romantic partners: A laboratory investigation on subjective, facial, and physiological emotional processing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-153

  Monfort, Samuel S ^a   Kaczmarek, Lukasz D ^b   Kashdan, Todd B ^a   Drazkowski, Dariusz ^b   Kosakowski, Michał ^b   Guzik, Przemysław ^c   Krauze, Tomasz ^c   Gracanin, Asmir ^d  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Capitalization; Facial expression; Physiology; Positive emotion; Romantic couples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901022886     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.04.028     Document Type: Article

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