When Aggressive Individuals See the World More Accurately: The Case of Perceptual Sensitivity to Subtle Facial Expressions of Anger

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 540-553

  Wilkowski, Benjamin M ^a   Robinson, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; anger; emotion perception; facial expressions; signal detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ARTICLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; VISION;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NORTH DAKOTA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858633929     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211430233     Document Type: Article

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