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Project

The influence of control on emotions
Code
3G022313
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Animal experimental and comparative psychology
    • Applied psychology
    • Biological and physiological psychology
    • General psychology
    • Human experimental psychology
    • Social psychology
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
Keywords
emotions appraisals control
 
Project description
 

Previous research has studied the influence of subjective control on emotions. Some studies showed an influence on the intensity of emotions, some on the valence of emotions, and some show that control determines the specific emotion (anger vs. fear). We examine the idea that the different effects obtained are due to the fact that different types of control were manipulated in these studies.