Publications

Publication details [#52335]

Ybarra, Oscar and Hyunjin Song. 2008. But Are You Really Happy?: The Negativity Effect in the Inference of Happiness and Unhappiness. Basic and Applied Social Psychology 30 (1) : 56–65.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | emotion | expression1 | inference | negative raising

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study confirms a negativity effect in person inference that also holds for the expression and communication of (un)happiness, as people make more readily correspondent inferences for others people's emotional expression of unhappiness than of happiness.