Taking Your Place or Matching Your Face: Two Paths to Empathic Embarrassment

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 502-513

  Hawk, Skyler T ^a   Fischer, Agneta H ^a   Van Kleef, Gerben A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Emotion expression; Empathic embarrassment; Mimicry; Perspective taking; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE;

AFFECT; CUES; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959324420     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022762     Document Type: Article

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