Are effects of emotion expression on Trait Impressions mediated by babyfaceness? evidence from connectionist modeling

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 648-662

  Zebrowitz, Leslie A ^a   Kikuchi, Masako ^a   Fellous, Jean Marc ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Babyfaceness; Connectionist modeling; Emotion expressions; Face perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ESTHETICS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEAUTY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247619256     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206297399     Document Type: Article

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