Modulation of facial reactions to avatar emotional faces by nonconscious competition priming

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 328-335

  Weyers, Peter ^a   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a   Kund, Anja ^a   Hess, Ursula ^b   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Emotion; Facial EMG; Facial expression; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRUGATOR SUPERCILII MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL MIMICRY; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC PROCEDURES, TECHNIQUES AND CONCEPTS; SUBLIMINAL PRIMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ZYGOMATICUS MAJOR MUSCLE;

ADULT; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049087533     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00771.x     Document Type: Article

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