Sex Differences in Emotion: Expression, Experience, and Physiology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 686-703

  Kring, Ann M ^a   Gordon, Albert H ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROL; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STUDENTS;

EID: 0032010954     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.3.686     Document Type: Article

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