Coherence between emotion and facial expression: Evidence from laboratory experiments

Emotion Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-23

  Reisenzein, Rainer ^a   Studtmann, Markus ^b   Horstmann, Gernot ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

affect program theory; emotion; facial expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872198109     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073912457228     Document Type: Review

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