Emotion elicitor or emotion messenger? Subliminal priming reveals two faces of facial expressions

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 593-600

  Ruys, Kirsten I ^a   Stapel, Diederik A ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; STUDENT; TIME;

COGNITION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STUDENTS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 44949252041     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02128.x     Document Type: Article

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