It's About Time: The Influence of Sociability - but Not Shyness - on the Categorization of Facial Expressions of Emotion

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 65-73

  Young, Meredith E ^a   Brunet, Paul M ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorization; Emotion; Individual differences; Shyness; Sociability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955001663     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000036     Document Type: Article

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