Language that puts you in touch with your bodily feelings: The multimodal responsiveness of affective expressions

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 974-980

  Foroni, Francesco ^a   Semin, Gün R ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AFFECT; AWARENESS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; READING; SEMANTICS; SMILING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68249084862     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02400.x     Document Type: Article

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