Embodied emotion perception: Amplifying and dampening facial feedback modulates emotion perception accuracy

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 673-678

  Neal, David T ^a   Chartrand, Tanya L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic implicit processes; emotion; facial expressions; nonverbal behavior; social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 80755123107     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611406138     Document Type: Review

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