The Look of Fear and Anger: Facial Maturity Modulates Recognition of Fearful and Angry Expressions

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-49

  Sacco, Donald F ^a   Hugenberg, Kurt ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; evolution; facial expressions; maturity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANGER; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 60749090610     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014081     Document Type: Article

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