Sad and Lonely? Sad Mood Suppresses Facial Mimicry

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-117

  Likowski, Katja U ^a   Weyers, Peter ^a   Seibt, Beate ^a,b   Stöhr, Christiane ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

EMG; Facial emotional expression; Facial mimicry; Information processing; Mood state

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954630549     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-011-0107-4     Document Type: Article

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