Walk to me when I smile, step back when I'm angry: Emotional faces modulate whole-body approach-avoidance behaviors

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 603-611

  Stins, John F ^a   Roelofs, Karin ^b   Villan, Jody ^a   Kooijman, Karen ^a   Hagenaars, Muriel A ^b   Beek, Peter J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Approach avoidance; Emotion; Emotional facial expression; Postural control; Reaction time; Step initiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPROACH AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STABILOGRAPHY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 79960954643     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2767-z     Document Type: Article

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