What is a nice smile like that doing in a place like this? Automatic affective responses to environments influence the recognition of facial expressions

Psychological Research

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 539-552

  Hietanen, Jari K ^a   Klemettilä, Terhi ^a   Kettunen, Jani E ^a   Korpela, Kalevi M ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTOMATISM; ENVIRONMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; AUTOMATISM; ENVIRONMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMILING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547820980     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-006-0064-4     Document Type: Article

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