How does facial feedback modulate emotional experience?

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 822-829

  Davis, Joshua Ian ^a   Senghas, Ann ^a   Ochsner, Kevin N ^b  

^a Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Embodied cognition; Embodied emotion; Emotion; Emotional experience; Expressive inhibition; Expressive suppression; Facial expression; Facial feedback; Non verbal communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349144056     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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