How the Object of Affect Guides its Impact

Emotion Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-54

  Clore, Gerald L ^a   Huntsinger, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

affect as information; emotional attribution; emotional intensity; emotional objects; nature of emotion; OCC model of emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993725186     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073908097185     Document Type: Article

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