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Original Articles

Discrete Emotion and Motivation: Relative Activation in the Appetitive and Aversive Motivational Systems as a Function of Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Joy During Televised Information Campaigns

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Pages 148-170 | Received 18 Jul 2007, Published online: 19 May 2009

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