Motor-incompatibility of facial reactions: The influence of valence and stimulus content on voluntary facial reactions

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 124-130

  Eisenbarth, Hedwig ^a   Gerdes, Antje B M ^b,c   Alpers, Georg W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Faces; Facial muscles; Incompatibility; Rating; References

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMOTION; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 79960086982     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000048     Document Type: Article

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