Affect and the self

Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 197-216

  Sedikides, Constantine ^a   Wildschut, Tim ^a   Arndt, Jamie ^b   Routledge, Clay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203720752     Document Type: Chapter

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