Can Anthropomorphic Analyses of Separation Cries in Other Animals Inform Us About the Emotional Nature of Social Loss in Humans? Comment on Blumberg and Sokoloff (2001)

Psychological Review

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 376-388

  Panksepp, Jaak ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANIMAL; CRYING; HUMAN; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEPARATION ANXIETY; VOCALIZATION;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; CRYING; HUMANS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037604732     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.110.2.376     Document Type: Review

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