Categorical Perception of Emotional Facial Expressions Does Not Require Lexical Categories

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1479-1483

  Sauter, Disa A ^b   LeGuen, Oliver ^a,b   Haun, Daniel B M ^a,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b El Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social   (Mexico)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Emotion; Facial expressions; Language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISGUST; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 83755172557     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025336     Document Type: Article

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