Sharing the Emotional Load: Recipient Affiliation Calms Down the Storyteller

Social Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 301-323

  Peräkylä, Anssi ^a   Henttonen, Pentti ^a   Voutilainen, Liisa ^a   Kahri, Mikko ^a   Stevanovic, Melisa ^a   Sams, Mikko ^b   Ravaja, Niklas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Arousal; Conversation analysis; Psychophysiology; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONITORING; RECIPIENT; STORYTELLING; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

EID: 84948448023     PISSN: 01902725     EISSN: 19398999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0190272515611054     Document Type: Article

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