Making sense of the social world and influencing it by using a naïve attribution theory of emotions

Emotion Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 336-343

  Hareli, Shlomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

attribution; inferences; na ve theory; social perception of emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914108950     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: 17540747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073914534501     Document Type: Review

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