The process of emotion inference

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Siemer, Matthias ^a   Reisenzein, Rainer ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Appraisal judgments; Cognitive processes; Emotion judgments; Emotions; Inference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RESPONSE TIME;

ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33947273660     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.1.1     Document Type: Article

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