The attribution approach to emotion and motivation: History, hypotheses, home runs, headaches/heartaches

Emotion Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 353-361

  Weiner, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attribution; causal beliefs; emotion; helping; motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914178537     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: 17540747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073914534502     Document Type: Review

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