Who may frown and who should smile? Dominance, affiliation, and the display of happiness and anger

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 515-536

  Hess, Ursula ^a   Adams Jr , Reginald B ^b   Kleck, Robert E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 21244504611     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930441000364     Document Type: Article

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