Social psychophysics: Using psychophysics to answer "social" questions with PsychoPro

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 623-632

  MacLin, Otto H ^a   MacLin, M Kimberly ^a   Peterson, Dwight ^a   Chowdhry, Osman ^a   Joshi, Priyanka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RACE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 68949196441     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.3.623     Document Type: Article

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