Looking at you or looking elsewhere: The influence of head orientation on the signal value of emotional facial expressions

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-144

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial expression; Head orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547313636     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-007-9057-x     Document Type: Article

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