Emotional faces in neutral crowds: Detecting displays of anger, happiness, and sadness on schematic and photographic images of faces

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-260

  Lipp, Ottmar V ^a   Price, Sarah M ^a   Tellegen, Cassandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anger superiority effect; Facial expression of emotion; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 71349087267     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-009-9136-2     Document Type: Article

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