Temporal aspects of facial displays in person and expression perception: The effects of smile dynamics, head-tilt, and gender

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-56

  Krumhuber, Eva ^a   Manstead, Antony S R ^a   Kappas, Arvid ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Emotions; Facial expressions; Perception of emotions; Person perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845984595     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-006-0019-x     Document Type: Article

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