On the Expression and Experience of Surprise: No Evidence for Facial Feedback, but Evidence for a Reverse Self-Inference Effect

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 612-627

  Reisenzein, Rainer ^a   Studtmann, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

embodiment; facial feedback; feeling as information; self perception; surprise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL LOAD; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AFFECT; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 34548832783     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.3.612     Document Type: Article

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