How social context moderates the self-evaluative emotions experienced due to health risk behaviour.
When people are confronted with the potential negative physical outcomes of their own health risk behaviour, they experience a self-threat. This threat is felt as negative self-evaluative emotions. We hypothesise that the threat will lead to more private self-evaluative emotions (e.g. regret) in a p...
| Published in: | Psychology & Health Vol. 26; no. 10; pp. 1344 - 1361 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2011
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