Global-happy and local-sad: Perceptual processing affects emotion identification

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1062-1069

  Srinivasan, Narayanan ^a   Hanif, Asma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Emotions; Facial expressions; Global local; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77956161927     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903101103     Document Type: Article

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