The scorn of status: A bias toward perceiving anger on high-status faces

Social Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 631-642

  Ratcliff, Nathaniel J ^a   Franklin, Robert G ^a   Nelson, Anthony J ^a   Vescio, Theresa K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84868601066     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2012.30.5.631     Document Type: Article

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