Emotion words shape emotion percepts

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 314-325

  Gendron, Maria ^a,b   Lindquist, Kristen A ^c,d   Barsalou, Lawrence ^e   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^a,f  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual knowledge; Emotion perception; Linguistic relativity; Perceptual priming; Words

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LONELINESS; MALE; PERCEPTION; VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN RELATION; INTUITION; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; THEORY OF MIND;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84865326270     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026007     Document Type: Article

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