Positive emotions and cognition: Developmental, neuroscience, and health perspectives

Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 235-252

  Huppert, Felicia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203720752     Document Type: Chapter

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