Islamic headdress influences how emotion is recognized from the eyes

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Kret, Mariska Esther ^a,b   de Gelder, Beatrice ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Context; Emotion; Face parts; Out group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867135615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00110     Document Type: Article

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