Infants' Responses to Facial and Vocal Emotional Signals in a Social Referencing Paradigm

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3219-3237

  Mumme, Donna L ^a   Fernald, Anne ^a   Herrera, Carla ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; VOICE;

AFFECT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 0030348025     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01910.x     Document Type: Article

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