THE ROLE OF AFFECT IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH: A Critical Survey and a Research Model

Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 295-329

  Sun, Heshan ^a   Zhang, Ping ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Affective Reactions Toward Using IT; Cognition; Cognitive Reactions Toward Using IT; Emotion; Information Systems; Personality Trait

Indexed keywords

EID: 85108989320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315703619-25     Document Type: Chapter

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