Differences between estimating protagonists' emotions and evaluating readers' emotions in narrative comprehension

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 135-151

  Komeda, Hidetsugu ^a   Kawasaki, Miho ^b   Tsunemi, Kohei ^b   Kusumi, Takashi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROVERSION; JAPANESE; LONELINESS; MALE; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; READING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 58049211947     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930801949116     Document Type: Article

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