The bodily expressive action stimulus test (BEAST). Construction and validation of a stimulus basis for measuring perception of whole body expression of emotions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b,c   Van den Stock, Jan ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Body expression; Emotion; Test validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859063334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00181     Document Type: Article

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