When a group just isn't in the mood: Two approaches for leveraging affect to increase group performance

Handbook of Psychology of Emotions: Recent Theoretical Perspectives and Novel Empirical Findings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-125

  Jones, Eric E ^a,b   Kelly, Janice R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology Life Science II   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotions; Groups; Leadership; Mood; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932648973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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