Mapping correspondence between facial mimicry and emotion recognition in healthy subjects

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1398-1403

  Ponari, Marta ^a   Conson, Massimiliano ^a   D'Amico, Nunzia Pina ^a   Grossi, Dario ^a   Trojano, Luigi ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Emotions; Facial expressions; Facial feedback

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874401497     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028588     Document Type: Article

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