Subtly different positive emotions can be distinguished by their facial expressions

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 262-271

  Mortillaro, Marcello ^a   Mehu, Marc ^a   Scherer, Klaus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Emotion; Facial expression; Positive emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051755727     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610389080     Document Type: Article

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