Facial reactions: Rapidly evoked emotional responses

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-123

  Dimberg, Ulf ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automatic responses; Emotion; Emotional stimuli; Facial electromyography; Facial expressions; Facial reaction

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMOTION; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SNAKE;

EID: 0030954647     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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