She's Emotional. He's Having a Bad Day: Attributional Explanations for Emotion Stereotypes

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 649-658

  Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^a,b   Bliss Moreau, Eliza ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attribution; emotion; sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASCULINITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHARACTER; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREJUDICE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350132806     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016821     Document Type: Article

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