Unequally masked: Indexing differences in the perceptual salience of "unseen" facial expressions

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1009-1026

  Maxwell, Jeffrey S ^a   Davidson, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 10944228459     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930441000003     Document Type: Article

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