Smiles make it easier and so do frowns: Masked affective stimuli influence mental effort

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 320-328

  Gendolla, Guido H E ^a   Silvestrini, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Effort; Implicit affect; Motivation

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; ANGER; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SMILING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955141055     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022593     Document Type: Article

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