The vividness of happiness in dynamic facial displays of emotion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Becker, D Vaughn ^a   Neel, Rebecca ^b   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^a,b,c   Neufeld, Samantha ^b   Kumar, Devpriya ^c   Fouse, Shannon ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA IMAGE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84855705864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026551     Document Type: Article

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