Effects of picture size reduction and blurring on emotional engagement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  de Cesarei, Andrea ^a   Codispoti, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MOTIVATION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; PHOTOSTIMULATION;

BLINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 78149435139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013399     Document Type: Article

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