Does Emotion Regulation Occur Only Inside People's Heads? Toward a Situated Cognition Analysis of Emotion-Regulatory Dynamics

Psychological Inquiry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-68

  Koole, Sander L ^a   Veenstra, Lotte ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84922983529     PISSN: 1047840X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2015.964657     Document Type: Note

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