The functions of facial expressions: What’s in a face?

The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 299-320

  Fridlund, Alan J ^a   Russell, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412976152.n16     Document Type: Chapter

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