Infant smiling dynamics and perceived positive emotion

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 133-155

  Messinger, Daniel S ^a   Cassel, Tricia D ^a   Acosta, Susan I ^a   Ambadar, Zara ^b   Cohn, Jeffrey F ^b,c  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated measurement; Emotion; Facial action coding system; Facial expression; Infant; Perceived emotion intensity; Smiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 44749088530     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-008-0048-8     Document Type: Article

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