Velocity Toward Goal Attainment in Immediate Experience as a Determinant of Affect

By J. Lawrence, C. Carver, M. Scheier. 2002

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Mental representations of social values (2010, background): “, 1979); theories of emotion and self-regulation have suggested a complex, social connection between values, motivation, and emotion ( Johnson-Laird & Oatley, 1992; Keltner & Haidt, 1999; Lawrence et al., 2002); theories of individual differences in goals and personality traits cite basic relations ”
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