Children's ability to control the facial expression of laughter and smiling: Knowledge and behaviour

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 385-411

  Ceschi, Grazia ^a   Scherer, Klaus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0037406438     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930143000725     Document Type: Review

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