Cross-cultural emotion recognition among Canadian ethnic groups

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 355-370

  Beaupré, Martin G ^a   Hess, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Emotion; Facial expression; In group advantage; In group bias; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744362213     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022104273656     Document Type: Article

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