Corrugator Muscle Responses Are Associated With Individual Differences in Positivity-Negativity Bias

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 640-648

  Neta, Maital ^a   Norris, Catherine J ^a   Whalen, Paul J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

ambiguity; EDA; facial EMG; individual differences; surprise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; RESPONSE TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; JUDGMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350125760     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016819     Document Type: Article

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