Parental perception and interpretation of infant emotions: Psychological and physiological processes

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 345-363

  Spangler, Gottfried ^a   Geserick, Barbara ^b   Von Wahlert, Angelika ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Social Pediatric Center of the Child Hospital Memmingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mimic responses; Perception of emotion; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844579707     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.398     Document Type: Article

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