Anger and Approach-Avoidance Motivation

Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 399-413

  Harmon Jones, Eddie ^a   Peterson, Carly ^a   Gable, Philip A ^a   Harmon Jones, Cindy ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203888148-50     Document Type: Chapter

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