Processes Underlying Congruent and Incongruent Facial Reactions to Emotional Facial Expressions

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 457-467

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Center for Social Research and Investigation   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Competition; Cooperation; EMG; Emotion; Mimicry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN;

ADULT; ANGER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959302171     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023162     Document Type: Article

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