The eyes have it: Making positive expressions more positive and negative expressions more negative

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 430-436

  Messinger, Daniel S ^a   Mattson, Whitney I ^b   Mahoor, Mohammad H ^c   Cohn, Jeffrey F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distress; Emotional expression; Facial action; Infancy; Intensity; Joy; Valence

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EMOTIONALITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CRYING; EMOTION; EYE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CRYING; EMOTIONS; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SMILING;

EID: 84867347603     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026498     Document Type: Article

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