Micro-valences: Perceiving affective valence in everyday objects

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Lebrecht, Sophie ^a   Bar, Moshe ^b   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^b,c   Tarr, Michael J ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective valence; Micro valence; Object preference; Object recognition; Visual object perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867119199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00107     Document Type: Article

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