What is an animal emotion?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1224, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 191-206

  De Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Empathy; Evolution; Facial expressions; Instinct

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DRIVE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIST; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79954549827     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05912.x     Document Type: Review

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