Unpacking Emotion Differentiation: Transforming Unpleasant Experience by Perceiving Distinctions in Negativity

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-16

  Kashdan, Todd B ^a   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^b   McKnight, Patrick E ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion differentiation; emotion regulation; emotional complexity; psychological flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923913913     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414550708     Document Type: Article

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