Affect and Face Perception: Odors Modulate the Recognition Advantage of Happy Faces

Emotion

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 315-326

  Leppänen, Jukka M ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ODOR; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AFFECT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0345412687     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.3.4.315     Document Type: Article

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