Vocal and Facial Emotion Decoding Difficulties Relating to Social and Thought Problems: Highlighting Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-77

  Wickline, Virginia B ^a   Nowicki, Stephen ^b   Bollini, Annie M ^b   Walker, Elaine F ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Emotion decoding; Emotion recognition; Nonverbal; Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD); Schizotypy; Social problems; Social reasoning; Thought problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856393266     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-011-0125-2     Document Type: Article

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