Individual differences in the recognition of enjoyment smiles: No role for perceptual-attentional factors and autistic-like traits

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2011, Pages

  Manera, Valeria ^a   Giudice, Marco Del ^b   Grandi, Elisa ^b   Colle, Livia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Autistic like traits; Duchenne marker; Eye tracker; Facial expressions; FACS; Individual differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867088260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00143     Document Type: Article

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