A smile is just a smile: But only for men. Sex differences in meaning of faces scales

Journal of Happiness Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-191

  Elfering, Achim ^a,b   Grebner, Simone ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equivalence testing; Field research methods; Survey research

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952091284     PISSN: 13894978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-008-9130-5     Document Type: Article

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