Faces in context: A review and systematization of contextual influences on affective face processing

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Wieser, Matthias J ^a   Brosch, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

"Basic emotion"; Context; Emotion; Face perception; Facial expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870954762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00471     Document Type: Article

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