Hostility- and gender-related differences in oscillatory responses to emotional facial expressions

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 502-513

  Knyazev, Gennady G ^a   Bocharov, Andrey V ^a   Slobodskoj Plusnin, Jaroslav Yu ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BASIC MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

EEG; Emotional facial expressions; Event related spectral perturbations; Gender; Hostility

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; OSCILLOMETRY; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; OSCILLOMETRY; PERSONALITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71149121378     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20318     Document Type: Article

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