An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion in Mental Health with a Focus on Affiliative Emotions

Emotion Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 230-237

  Gilbert, Paul ^a  

^a KINGSWAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

affect systems; affiliative emotions; alerting and regulation functions; coping with threat; emotion coregulation; evolution of emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937035583     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: 17540747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073915576552     Document Type: Article

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