Exploring the Toolkit of Emotion: What Do Sadness and Anger Do for Us?

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 11-25

  Lench, Heather C ^a   Tibbett, Thomas P ^a   Bench, Shane W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84953790781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12229     Document Type: Article

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