True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-304

  Solomon, Robert C ^a  

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Author keywords

Anger; Character; Compassion; Emotions; Fear; Guilt; Happiness; Jealousy; Living; Love

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DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368536.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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