Fuzziness of nonverbal courtship communication unblurred by motion energy detection

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 487-508

  Grammer, Karl ^a,c   Honda, Masanao ^b   Juette, Astrid ^a   Schmitt, Alain ^a  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033192822     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.3.487     Document Type: Article

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