The face is not an empty canvas: How facial expressions interact with facial appearance

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1535, 2009, Pages 3497-3504

  Hess, Ursula ^a   Adams Jr , Reginald B ^b   Kleck, Robert E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial appearance; Facial expression

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SIGNAL;

EID: 73549088326     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0165     Document Type: Review

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